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TIL Children’s books have 50% more rare words in them than does an average showing of adult prime-time television.

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AD1mw TIL Molossia, a micronation located inside of Nevada USA, claims to still be at war with East Germany
MyMb TIL that it used to be compulsory for figure skaters to slowly trace precise, intricate shapes into the ice to be inspected by judges for scoring – hence the name ‘figure skating’.
vVLj TIL to get into character as The Bear Jew in Inglourious Basterds, Eli Roth listened to Hannah Montana songs and thought about what it’d be like if he was Hannah Montana because it took him “to a place of insanity.”
lVRV TIL there’s video of Saddam Hussein becoming dictator of Iraq in 1979 at a Baath party leadership meeting, where he named some members as traitors – and then ordered the rest to go outside and execute them
xV8n0 TIL that the majority of Americans teenagers are still virgins by the time they hit eighteen, and the number using birth control has increased over time.