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TIL Shakira is an impressive polyglot. She is fluent in Spanish, English, Portuguese, French, Italian, and Catalan

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N5b6 TIL that during the thunderous applause following his famous ‘We shall fight on the beaches’ speech to the to the House of Commons in 1940, Winston Churchill whispered to a colleague, “And we’ll fight them with the butt ends of broken beer bottles because that’s bloody well all we’ve got!”.
gZOD TIL that on 9/11 some jet fighters took to the air without live ammunition, knowing that to prevent the hijackers from striking their intended targets, the pilots might have to intercept and crash their fighters into the hijacked planes, ejecting at the last moment.
v1lvL TIL Siamese cats have temperature sensitive fur, the cooler the part of the cat’s body, the darker the fur
oK1W TIL that many regions in the US, most recently being the state of Hawaii, have tried solving their homeless problem by providing one-way plane tickets out of the area.
4mw5 TIL: Coconut crabs are so adapt and hearty to living on the land that they can live up to 60 years and will drown if submerged in water for too long. They also can climb trees and will do so for coconuts which they eat.