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TIL when Samoset met the Pilgrims at Plymouth, he already knew enough English from fishermen to say "Welcome" and ask for beer.

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N7OYJ TIL in 1956 the Soviet Union had considered a plan to build a 55-mile dam across the Bering Strait, pump warm water into the Arctic Ocean, and thaw Siberia.
DQNOP TIL ending a sentence with '/s' is called a 'Tone Indicator'; a set of 60+ symbols that explicitly state the intention or intonation of a message, when it might be considered otherwise ambiguous.
nld9 TIL 80,000 years ago, change from a vegetarian diet to eating meat may have enabled brain size to increase, which resulted in evolution to homo sapiens.
Y1nG TIL that unicorns are mentioned 9 times in the Bible.
yVj1J TIL while most people will sing 'Stayin' Alive' during CPR, you can also sing 'Highway to Hell' or 'Y.M.C.A' it will definitely give another vibe