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TIL that Jodie Foster was so fluent in French that she dubbed her own movies.

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woyxP TIL French sailor Narcisse Pelletier was abandoned in 1858 at the age of 14 on the Cape York Peninsula, in Australia. He was discovered and rescued by an Aboriginal family who adopted him and named him Amglo, for the next 17 years, until he was found by the crew of the John Bell in 1875.
m1JAx TIL the International Court of Justice could not conclusively decide whether a country may use nuclear weapons in self-defense if its survival is at stake.
grB9W TIL pajamas are called 'night suits' in south asia
GY1Eg TIL that Bhutan is the only country that absorbes more CO2 than it produces.
W7aXB TIL in 2006, Emerson Electric filed suit against NBC after the pilot episode of Heroes featured Claire Bennet reaching into an active garbage disposal and injuring her hand. The company claimed the scene "casts the disposer in an unsavory light, irreparably tarnishing the product".