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TIL There are 6 languages OF the UN
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TIL that contrary to their portrayal in Jurassic Park and King Kong, the T-Rex lacked the ability to roar. If it wasn’t silent, it likely could only hiss like a Crocodile.
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TIL Maybach is pronounced “mybach.” That’s it. Had never seen an ad for Maybach before on TV.
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TIL there is no December 30, 2011 in the history of the Pacific Ocean islands of Samoa and Tokelau as the day was skipped when these islands moved their time zone from the last time zone east of the international date line to the first west of the date line
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TIL William Rankin survived a (40 minute) fall through a thunderstorm cloud. Suffering immediate frostbite and mid-air internal bleeding, while being suspended aloft by updrafts, he watched lightning appear, which he described as blue blades several feet thick, and thunder that he could feel.
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TIL lewis Carrol developed ideas in linear algebra, probability & the study of elections & committees. Also one of his inventions was a writing tablet called the nyctograph that allowed note-taking in the dark, thus eliminating the need to get out of bed and strike a light when one woke with an idea