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TIL the Bible has been translated into Jamaican Patois, the national language of Jamaica; the “Our Father” starts out “Wi Faada we iina evn…”

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rMoe TIL in 1961 Donald Reid built a Flying Submarine. It was demonstrated on 9 June 1964 where it dove to a depth of 6.5 feet (2 m) then flew to an altitude of 33 ft (10 m) .
kVKE TIL that 5,500 unexploded bombs from WWII are discovered in Germany each year
4kDX6 TIL the internet was revolutionising the way people got together and average (median) marriage age in the US has increased in the last decade.
0wYJN Today I Learned that Veggietales wasn't originally going to have vegetables as the characters. Phill Vischer simply needed character models that were easy to animate in the early days of computer animation. Vegetables didn’t require animating arms, legs, or hair like humans or animals would.
VMBZB TIL that Sir Ian McKellen and Stephen Fry saved a Southampton pub called "The Hobbit" from having to change its name after being threatened with legal action based on the accusations that the pub was committing copyright infringement.