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TIL there is a dialect of German only spoken in Texas

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aw88N TIL that The Grinch was the biggest box-office hit of 2000.
x6LWo TIL that the EU maintains an Air Safety list of airlines with "significant safety deficiencies on the part of an airline or its oversight authority" anywhere in the world. These airlines are banned from operating in the EU.
akk0 TIL an early version of Picasso’s The Weeping Woman was stolen from the National Gallery of Victoria with the ransom demand being an increase in funding to the arts. The painting was later found undamaged in a locker at a Melbourne train station and the theft remains unsolved today.
86JP TIL that four college students developed a nail polish that turns black when exposed to date rape drugs including Rohypnol, Xanax, and GHB
oBrW8 TIL Shoplifters were using self service checkouts to scan expensive fruit and veg as carrots at a major UK supermarket chain. They were only discovered when the supermarket noticed they had sold more carrots than they’d ever had in stock.