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TIL High and Low German are named to describe the ALTITUDE their spoken at (highlands or lowlands).

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7rExr TIL about Le Gentil. In 1760, went to India to see transit of Venus. He missed it, so he waited there for 8 years until the next one. When he returned, he learned that he had been declared dead: His estate had been divided up, his wife had remarried, and his position at the academy was given away.
nAD7 TIL in 1995, McDonald’s asked Greenpeace activists to stop criticizing their company publicly and instead do it only in private with their friends. Activists said they’d agree if McDonald’s stopped advertising its products and instead only recommended their restaurants privately to friends.
lomaV TIL the American Cheetah, Miracinonyx trumani, is thought to be the main reason why Pronghorn are the fastest mammals in the Western Hemisphere, as the are much faster than any extant predator.
LQpdd TIL that until the 1967 Supreme Court case In re Gault, juveniles accused of crimes in the US did not have the same due process rights as adults. The case involved a 16 year-old sentenced to 6 years in juvenile detention for a prank call, a crime for which adults had a maximum sentence of 2 months.
0drvy TIL U.S. citizens who have never resided in the U.S. and have a parent or legal guardian that was last domiciled in one of 12 States (Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Pennsylvania, Texas, Wyoming) are not eligible to vote.