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TIL that Z is the most common consonant in Polish.

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VrdB TIL George Washington was so afraid of being buried alive that he asked his staff to wait two days after his death to be buried.
VBXjB TIL George Leonidas Leslie was responsible for about 80% of all bank robberies in the US in the late 1800s. By day he was a distinguished architect who hobnobbed with New York City’s elite, but by night he was one of history’s most prolific bank robbers.
l7OlB TIL that despite remaining neutral during WWII, Switzerland was accidentally bombed over 70 times, most often by the US. After Zurich was accidentally bombed 1945, the American pilots were courtmartialed, and the presiding officer was Col. Jimmy Stewart.
VMZm TIL that ‘Family Protection Bill’ in Iran “gives men the right to take a second wife without the permission of the first, and it would enshrine a man’s right to have an unlimited number of temporary marriages, which can last from 10 minutes to 99 years.”
bQMN TIL China has deforested most of its historically wooded areas. A law promulgated in 1981 requires that every school student over the age of 11 plants at least one tree per year.