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TIL that the de facto main language between Singaporeans is Singaporean Colloquial English, AKA broken English/Singlish

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nWdMo TIL of the album Dark Night of the Soul by Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse. It was unreleased for years due to a label dispute. After it was leaked online, Danger Mouse started selling a blank CD-R with the label "For legal reasons, enclosed CD-R contains no music. Use it as you will."
VAl0 TIL not only is Agatha Christie the best-selling novelist of all time, she was also among one of the first Britons to surf standing up.
rNdry TIL in WW2 the British, with the help of a professional magician, tricked the Germans into thinking that a British double-agent had successfully sabotaged an airplane factory.
v1Gn4 TIL, in 2018 the Sagrada Familia Church agreed to pay Barcelona $41M as fine for lacking a building permit for 136 Years
PY71g TIL that in 1990 there was only 1 full-time exorcist in the catholic church. Today there are several hundreds.