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TIL People who constantly point out grammar mistakes typically have "less agreeable" personalities, are less open, and more likely to judge you for your mistakes.

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loj65 TIL: In the 1880s, the Fenian Brotherhood, Irish separatists living in the US, commissioned John Holland to build a submarine to attack British ships. Due to a legal dispute, they refused to pay for the submarine, stole it, couldn't pilot it, and Holland refused to teach them.
NXZL1 TIL that little extra flap of skin that some dogs and most cats have on their ears is called a Henry's pocket
pYaJO TIL that South Koreans have three different ways of calculating their age, all currently in use for different purposes
loGY5 TIL that Liechtenstein & Uzbekistan are the only two double landlocked countries in the world. A country is "doubly landlocked" or "double-landlocked" when it is surrounded only by landlocked countries (requiring the crossing of at least two national borders to reach a coastline)
9w4K7 TIL that cows get most of their proteins by digesting bacteria from their rumen that ended up in their stomach