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TIL that English is Louis C.K.’s second language. He was raised in Mexico and exclusively spoke Spanish until age seven.

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mR8x TIL University of Cambridge researchers studying animal cooperation found elephants learned even faster than chimps; “elephants’ understanding of the need to cooperate shows that they belong in an ‘elite group’ of intelligent, socially complex animals.”
OdMX TIL the last WWII officer surrendered in 1974 after living on an Island for decades, convinced that the war was not over. He died in 2014 at age 91.
xJxB TIL that liquid helium, at absolute zero (-459.67 F) will have zero viscosity and will actually defy gravity and flow upward.
6EOaZ TIL In 1979, two tiny silver scrolls were found in a burial chamber southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem. Dated 400 years before the Dead Sea Scrolls, the scrolls were examined and found to contain the Priestly Benediction, Numbers 6:24-26.
KOEgQ TIL about the 'Time Cube', a conspiracy theory in which modern education and physics are hiding the ultimate truth: That each day actually consists of four separate simultaneously occurring days.