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TIL that there is no official language of the USA

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yQEnV TIL Teeth are only able to experience one sensation, that being pain. When you eat or drink something too hot or too cold, or a dentist operates on your teeth, you will only experience pain because that is the only thing the nerves around your teeth respond to.
9mp6 TIL that Rasputin’s causes of death are mostly myths: He didn’t drown and wasn’t poisoned, either.
MejgW TIL about the Jabuticaba tree which grows warts like fruits directly on its trunk.
BrYWr TIL of Laura Secord, a Canadian woman who walked 30 km (about 19 miles) to warm British troops about a planned attacked by US troops on Beaver Dams during the War of 1812. There is now a chocolate company named after her.
6DlZ TIL that after German courts found insufficient evidence against his daughter’s killer, a dad hired 2 guys to kidnap the man and transport him to France. The man was found “tied up and dumped near a French courthouse.” Hegot 15 years in prison. Dad got a 1-year suspended sentence for kidnapping.