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TIL there is a province in Italy where 62% of the population uses German as their first language

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X0A56 TIL orcas cultural fads. In the 1980s one such fad was wearing dead salmon as hats. It spread to three separate Pacific pods before suddenly going out of style.
KYYV4 TIL that George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-Four" was originally titled "The Last Man in Europe", Orwell later considered "1980" and "1982" before settling on "1984". The title was not just an inversion of the year it was written (1948) which is often suggested.
57pn TIL in 1963, JFK suggested cancelling Apollo in favor of a joint US-Soviet mission to the moon.
5VJkB TIL Hulk Hogan is Hispanic
wM7P TIL Malaria is thought to be responsible for the death of about half of all people who ever lived.