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TIL Rottweilers purr like cats
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TIL following difficulties with understanding regional accents and dialects, in 2010 a translator firm started actively looking for interpreters who know the Scouse and Geordie variations of English.
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TIL that the Japanese couldn't keep up with American armor in the later stages of WWII, so they developed a suicidal anti-tank explosive called a Lunge mine.
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TIL not only can Bamboo be made into a textile, it’s also antimicrobial
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TIL about Carbon Chauvinism, a term coined by Carl Sagan which assumes that all extraterrestrial life must be made of carbon because carbon-based humans are unable to imagine life made of radically different biochemistries.
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TIL that in France, a megabyte is called a mega-octet because ‘byte’ means cock, and therefore 'megabyte’ is unintentionally rude.