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TIL The United States does not have an official language.

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pvJN TIL that the FBI identified the Unabomber – in part – due to him using the phrase “you can’t eat your cake and have it too” instead of “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” in his manifesto.
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x6kV1 TIL that there is a virus called Sputnik which infects other viruses. When a virus called APMV infects a host, Sputnik then hijacks it and uses it as a means to replicate, damaging the APMV's own machinery in the process, while not harming the host.
AZwa TIL That McDonald’s daily customer traffic is larger than the population of Great Britain.