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TIL that Ancient Greek was the official language of Greece until 1976.

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N7JRE TIL earthworms lay eggs
yjOe TIL that JFK said he wanted to, “splinter the CIA into a thousand pieces and scatter it into the winds.”
jAEv TIL R. Norris Williams survived the Titanic sinking but spent so much time submerged in the icy Atlantic that doctors wanted to amputate his legs on rescue ship Carpathia. He refused the amputation ,recovered and went on to win the U.S. Tennis Championship that very same year
kJ5W5 TIL about Landon Jones, a boy from Iowa who, in 2014, suddenly lost the ability to feel hungry or thirsty, refusing to eat and dropping from 104 to 68 pounds within a year. There’s been no update on his progress
oBkkY TIL despite being 8 times smaller, Spotify pays music artists twice as much as YouTube does. The music industry makes more money selling vinyl records than from YouTube.