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TIL Karl Marx was a savvy stock investor

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neZpr TIL that the Japanese language has only 100 syllables. But, it takes knowledge of about 1900 characters to write words with them. English has over 2600 one-syllable words, and thousands of different syllables, all of which are written using only 26 characters.
yQdMa TIL striking out four times in one baseball game is called a golden sombrero
jGjj TIL Thomas Jefferson cut and pasted from a King James Bible in order to make a condensed version that included the philosophy of Christ the man, with no supernatural events included.
RD5w TIL Saturn’s moon Enceladus has liquid water geysers that may be ejecting huge numbers of microbes directly into space. It might be literally snowing life.
av8M TIL in 2010, Sandra Bullock accepted her Golden Raspberry Award in person for Worst Actress for her role in All About Steve. The following night, Bullock won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in The Blind Side.