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TIL that the Netherlands has a higher percentage of English speakers than several countries where it’s the official language, such as Malta and Canada

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xa0b TIL that half of the uranium used in US power plants comes from recycled Russian nuclear weapons under an agreement that actually runs out this year.
VBRZZ TIL François Delsarte was an 19th century French singing and performance teacher known for his emphasis on expressing emotions and gestures. Delsarte never wrote an official guide to his style and ultimately imitators taught his style as heartless, stereotyped, and melodramatic gesticulation.
woOnJ TIL there is evidence that the panda’s dedicated bamboo diet may have originated at least six million years ago.
JYy0m TIL that in 1965 South Africa gave Israel 100 tonnes of uranium in exchange for just 30 grams of tritium
9wwR7 TIL that nobody has ever been arrested for a crime in Tristan da Cunha, a remote group of small islands in the Atlantic Ocean that boasts a population of 250