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TIL that Luxembourg’s education system is trilingual: the first years of primary school are in Luxembourgish, before changing to German, while in secondary school, the language of instruction changes to French.

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yVY4l TIL about the Nastapoka Arc, a near perfect circular shape in the eastern corner of Hudson Bay, covering more than 160 degrees of 450-km circle. Despite the shape, current consensus is against its being an impact crater.
wLep7 TIL in 2006, the Mythbusters tested the myth that cardboard used in cereal boxes are healthier than the sugary cereal itself. Two groups of mice were given either item and the box group ended up eating each other while both Mythbusters made remarks about it. The myth was promptly never shown on TV.
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8ekQP TIL actress Sydney Sweeney was valedictorian of her highschool graduating class.
0wKAM TIL: There is a Canadian island called Devon Island, which is largest uninhabited island in the world and it is used to simulate Mars like environment by scientist because of its uncanny similarity with Martian surface .