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TIL 350 languages are spoken within the United States

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l7jRB TIL that the Faber-Castell pencil company was founded in 1761, and is one of the world's oldest industrial companies and has been run by the same family for nine generations!
j6VNv TIL The reason "Baywatch" filmed sequences in slow motion is because they were short on money to finish the shows
5V9Nr TIL FDA guidelines allow bottled water to be labeled as artesian, groundwater, distilled, deionized, reverse osmosis, mineral, purified, sparkling, spring and/or sterile
rn11 TIL a colleague of Steve Jobs said: “He’s a very sensitive guy. That’s one of the things that makes…his rudeness so unconscionable. I can understand why people who are thick-skinned and unfeeling can be rude, but not sensitive people.”
wLNMo TIL the James Webb Space Telescope has gold-plating on its mirrors because the mirrors are made of poorly-reflective beryllium able to withstand cold.