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TIL that 50 to 90 percent of the languages that are spoken today are expected to become extinct by the year 2100.

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kDJ1 TIL dolphins have personal names: unique whistles to which they respond, even when sound is synthesized.
9wbO6 TIL that up to 93 million people suffer from Central Sleep Apnea, a sleep disorder where the brain ‘forgets’ to tell the body to breathe.
9wOy6 TIL is is estimated that medical errors is the 3rd leading cause of U.S deaths, causing up to 250k deaths yearly
e0XZn TIL that the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkov, urinated on a tire of the bus that took her to the launch site. This remarkable woman was only 26 years old, a former textile factory worker, and was in space a full two decades before the first U.S. woman was.
OX16 TIL President John F. Kennedy was a huge James Bond fan. He viewed an early print of ‘From Russia with Love’ at the White House on Nov 21st, 1963. It was the last film he ever saw, he was killed the next day in Dallas.