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TIL in Estonian, the letter 'z' is sorted between 's' and 't'.

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oBplW TIL about David Gates, former member of 70’s soft rock band Bread, who studied the cattle ranching business while touring with his band. He married his highschool sweetheart, raised four children with her and is currently retired in his 1,400-acre (570 ha) ranch in Mount Vernon, Washington.
loK7r TIL as Lt. Dan Inouye was about to toss a grenade at a German machine gun nest, a Nazi shot his arm off with an RPG. Undaunted, Inouye pulled the live grenade from his severed hand, tossed it, put his gun in his left hand, then wiped out three machine gun nests and killed 25 Nazis on his own.
J8J8 TIL NBC was forced to buy hornymanatee.com after Conan O'Brien said the website on his show.
74vX TIL that Jim Crow-era “Literacy Tests” were frequently not even legitimate tests of reading skills but instead were a series of incredibly confusing trick questions such as “Print the word vote upside down, but in the correct order.”
eEA6 TIL that 86.8% of Pit Bulls pass a temperament test - better than Collies, Golden Retrievers and Beagles