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TIL that Tachometer refers to the dial measuring rpm in English speaking countries. In my country, Slovakia, it refers to the speedometer.

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VMDJ8 TIL that the reason we get a runny nose after crying is because the leftover fluid that wasn’t shed through tears gets drained into the nose through the “lacrimal point” (that weird mysterious hole on your lower eyelid).
9mp6 TIL that Rasputin’s causes of death are mostly myths: He didn’t drown and wasn’t poisoned, either.
X0n6j TIL that Abraham Lincoln’s dog, Fido, was stabbed to death.
epEOb TIL in 2010, a 16-year-old Canadian discovered that his two parents were actually not Canadian, but KGB spies living under fake names Donald and Tracey.
BP6k TIL using baby talk with infants has valuable implications for language acquisition. This exaggerated speech style gives babies information about their ambient language, allowing them to break up what they hear into smaller chunks and process the patterns in their language more easily.