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TIL Oregon is the fastest speaking state in the US

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R5rLl TIL: Chuck norris’s first name is actually carlos
x6p6g TIL that in the Battle of the Nile, Admiral Francois-Paul Brueys's hands, face, and arms were mauled by cannonfire: he continued to command, when a cannonball severed both his legs. He then ordered his men to strap him to an armchair and continued to order his men until his ship, L'Orient, blew up.
O7VL TIL there was a single in Billboard’s Bubbling Under the Hot 100 chart for three weeks that no-one can find any evidence ever existed.
gr7E4 TIL that Tracey Ullman, whose self-titled show is the show that originally spawned The Simpsons, is the first British woman with her own American sketch show.
gkaD TIL that the scent of a familiar human evokes a reward response in the brain of a dog.