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TIL there is a dialect of German only spoken in Texas

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BgREy TIL that long formal movies had to come in two-parts and people back then would have to swap part1 out with part2 to finish watching a movie!
DQePP TIL a German scientist named Alfred Wegener was ridiculed in 1912 for advancing the idea that the continents were adrift. Ridiculed as having “wandering pole plague.” or “Germanic pseudo­-science” and accused Wegener of toying with the evidence to spin himself into “a state of auto-intoxication."
Z8ADp TIL that before the introduction of disposable diapers, 90% of American children were potty trained by age two
XPOQ TIL that nearly 60 percent of Medal of Honor recipients have been Irish-American, including 257 Irish natives.
9wnPM TIL the ThrustSSC set the land speed record (at 1,227.986km/h) in 1997, and the record still stands. It remains the only land vehicle to have travelled faster than the speed of sound.