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TIL 85% of all people will only read a headline (or title to a link) without clicking on the story to see if its accurate.

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R7GE9 TIL that, right now, 9 languages a year, or one every 40 days, goes extinct and soon we will be losing our linguistic heritage at the rate of 26 languages each year—one every two weeks.
04Zp TIL that the first African American NFL player (Kenny Washington) and the first African American MLB player (Jackie Robinson), were on the same college football team at the same time.
gM6p8 TIL the founder of the KKK, a Confederate cavalry general, later ordered the klan to disband and called for racial harmony between whites and blacks
69M6m TIL the the movie Ricochet (1991) starring Denzel Washington and John Lithgow is set in the same fictional universe as Die Hard.
8MMG TIL there is a inflatable space habitat in earth orbit since 2006 to prove that it works