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TIL Bilingual reduced emotional resonance is a fairly well-established phenomenon were many bilinguals report “feeling less” in their second language, which might make it easier to use highly emotional vocabulary, and swear.

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GYwa4 TIL that "The University of Oklahoma football program began in 1895, 12 years before statehood."
nJAr TIL that the seconds hands in train station clocks in Switzerland run 1.7 % faster, then stop for an extra second at the top of the minute (as they are synchronized). That gives trains a full 2 seconds during which they can leave exactly on time.
EgK9X TIL about the italien Hatchiko, a dog named Fido, who waited for 14 years at a bus stop for his owner, who was killed in an allied air raid during world war 2.
XEGW8 TIL that in 2016 a class action lawsuit was filed against Procter & Gamble, seeking settlements for victims of chemical burns and rashes caused by using certain sticks of Old Spice deodorant.
AD8nn TIL that the first person to survive going over Niagra Falls in a barrel was a 63 year old woman named Annie Edson Taylor. She was hoping to make enough money from her fame to become financially secure, but never got much, in part because her manager stole her barrel.