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TIL English is the only language that has more non-native speakers than native speakers.

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ZW4v TIL that carrier pigeons only know how to fly back to their home base. The infrastructure that supported this messaging system required regular deliveries of birds between cities and regular release of the birds so they did not imprint on a new location.
6EDwJ TIL Salvador Dali was a cheapskate who liked to appear generous to his friends by inviting them to fancy restaurants. When it was time to pay the bill, he would write out a check then doodle a sketch on the reverse, knowing that the restauranteur would never cash a check bearing one of his sketches
E16AP TIL that,during the Cold War, the Canadian government commissioned the creation of a device that could detect homosexuality in people in order to keep members of the LGBT community out of public service or the military.Its nickname?"Fruit Machine".
awopL TIL that the oil and gas companies used to sponsor the media and the news would show their ads during the broadcast
ZplpD TIL that Minecraft was released 15 years ago on May 17th, 2009.