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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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m1kDE TIL Boeing offered to install solid rockets on their early 727-200 airliners back in the 1960s and 1970s. These were for emergency thrust in the event of an engine failure during takeoff at high altitude airports. Only twelve 727s ever had them, all with Mexicana Airlines for use at Mexico City.
xVae1 TIL Florida Woman celebrated as the first person ever to be cured of advanced breast cancer with the use of immunotherapy.
NAZe TIL that Thomas Edison never invented a bulb it was Nicola Tesla who created it. Edison just marketed the bulb and got credit.Nicola used to work for edison in his early career.
0wbQM TIL that Huey Lewis got a perfect 800 on his math SAT
QWyd TIL that the word “galaxy” literally means “milky way,” so the milky way galaxy is the “milky way milky way.”