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TIL 350 languages are spoken within the United States

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mjyv TIL that there is a 150-year-old mosque in Iran that, when viewed from the interior at certain hours of the day, produces an intense kaleidoscopic effect due to its unique pattern of tiling and colored glass
E1MVV TIL researchers made a 3-D virtual chest reconstruction of a 60,000-yr-old male Neanderthal skeleton called "Kebara 2" or “Moshe”. They found that he didn't have a hunched posture but would stand upright with a straight spine; he had a similar-size chest to humans today but greater lung capacity.
GAAn1 TIL AirPods are "difficult if not impossible" to recycle and not designed to be repairable.
N7L76 [TIL] that the soldiers who guarded the Nuremberg War Trials were former Waffen SS