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TIL that the Dutch national motto is in French.
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TIL the cannibalism depicted in the 1980 horror movie “Cannibal Holocaust” was so realistic, the director Ruggero Deodato was brought to court and had to prove he didn’t actually kill his actors.
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TIL the Oxford English Dictionary contains over 170,000 words in current use, whereas a vocabulary of just 3000 words provides coverage for around 95% of common texts. If you do the math, that's 1.75% of the total number of words in use.
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TIL that a worm’s mind has been mapped, replicated, and placed inside a Lego robot.
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TIL King Louis IX aka 'Saint Louis' made gambling, loans, & prostitution illegal. He also introduced innocent until proven guilty, banned trials by ordeal, created the military police & bailiffs.
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TIL this purple snailfish was filmed at a depth of 5 miles using a deep sea camera-equipped lander in the Pacific Ocean's Atacama Trench located off the coast of Peru and Chile in 2018 making it the first time to ever see this species. Pink and blue snailfish were also filmed during the expedition.