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TIL prostitutes in Brazil are enrolling in free English classes so they can provide better service for tourists during the World Cup

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lnGG TIL four undocumented students from Carl Hayden Community High School in Phoenix, Arizona, beat MIT to win the national underwater robot championship in 2005
b9WM9 TIL Gayla Peevey, the little girl who sang, "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas," is still alive, and was only ten years old when she recorded the song in 1953.
16OaX TIL that leeches have 32 brains, 18 testicles, 10 stomachs, 5 pairs of eyes, 2 hearts and 300 teeth in it's three jawed mouth.
Pl1E TIL Saturn’s moon Enceladus has gysers that shoot large jets of water vapor into space and according to NASA “is emerging as the most habitable spot beyond Earth in the Solar System for life as we know it.”
J1R8k TIL that the United Church of Canada has had an openly non-thiest priest on thier books since 2001; and an openly Atheist one since 2013