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TIL that native English speakers, when using multiple adjectives to describe a noun, have a tendency to put the adjectives in a particular order according to type.

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dDVlB TIL a majority of the people Christopher Walken interacted with as a child were non-native English speakers, including his father. Walken attributes his unique halting speaking style to watching people hesitate to think of the right English word.
a77N TIL that starting December 13th commercials cannot be louder than the show.
VQGQ TIL that in 1973, the Vanderbilts held a family reunion. Not one of the 120 decedents were millionaires at the time
kOg4B TIL that the USSR successfully used a 30 kilotons nuclear bomb to put out a burning gas well in Uzbekistan in 1966
vpmK TIL the Green Bay Packers are named after the Indian Packing Company, who paid for their first uniforms on the condition the team be named after them.