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TIL: The Ford Mustang was not named after a horse but the P51 Mustang fighter plane

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v1yW7 TIL that in the Swiss boarding school Institut Le Rosey, a quota system limits students of any one country or linguistic region (e.g. English-speaking countries, German-speaking countries) to 10% of the school’s total population, which results in the 450 students coming from over 70 countries
pPMA TIL that glass takes approximately 1 million years to decompose.
l7Kn1 TIL that the saliva of Komodo dragons often contains blood because their teeth are almost entirely covered by gum tissue, which frequently tears during feeding
16O44 TIL Krakatoa’s 1883 eruption was so powerful it was heard 3,000 miles away and changed global weather patterns”
MeLQB TIL of Semantic Satiation: the psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.