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TIL Five US States - Delaware, Maine, Vermont, West Virginia, and Wyoming - all lack a city over 100k population

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KNY6 TIL In Germany everyone has to pay for a TV licence by law to fund public broadcasting. They also billed Janosch Städtler repeatedly due to a registration which was filed online by a unkown hoaxer. Attempts of his family to explain that he is a dog remained unheard.
KZbw TIL a tortoise named ‘Harriet’ died in 2006 at the age of 176. To put that into perspective, she was a pet of Charles Darwin in 1835 and lived until blu-ray discs were available.
XwKj TIL Steven Spielberg was thanked more often than God in Oscar acceptance speeches.
LLnv TIL In German there is a word for when cables under the desk tangle and create a mess: Kabelsalat (Cable Salad)
5YWlR TIL had it not been for the Norman Conquest of 1066, the English we speak today would have been much different and more restrictive. The merging of Old English and Norman French led to Modern English being sort of hybrid of the two, giving another shade of meaning to words such as "swine" vs "pork".