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TIL that Aircraft Carriers have up to 6000 people working onboard at all times, and have been called "floating cities at sea"

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oaor TIL texting is considered to be closer to speaking (“finger speaking”) than it is to writing; it has many hallmarks of an evolving language in its own right with a unique grammar and dialect. Rather than hurting people’s writing skills, texting may provide bidialectical benefits to the brain.
E1NR0 TIL the oldest known language in the world is Tamil and even till date it is spoken by 78 million people. Next in line are Sanskrit, Greek, Chinese, Hebrew, Arabic.
vkY7 TIL that James Cameron corrected the stars that appeared in the night sky in the 2012 3D version of Titanic after Neil deGrasse Tyson sent him a snarky email saying at that time of year, in that position in the Atlantic in 1912 Rose would not have seen those stars.
Z8RXD TIL Beverly Eckert, a 9/11 widow, whose husband died in the South Tower of the WTC, while being on a phonecall with her, died 8 years later in a planecrash.
rNR0e TIL the Greek orator Demosthenes was said to treat his speech impediment by talking with pebbles in his mouth and shouting above the roar of the ocean waves.