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TIL About half of the US Presidents have been bilinguals or polyglots.

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mxrOR TIL that in the USSR, according to Soviet statistics, the 3% of cultivated land in private hands "produced over a quarter of gross agricultural output, including about 30 percent of meat and milk, 66 percent of potatoes, and 40 percent of fruits, vegetables, and eggs"
LkB7d TIL Natalie Portman had multiple sex scenes with Ashton Kutcher and one with Mila Kunis ( Kutcher's now wife) in separate movies in the same year.
n8Ko TIL Humphrey Bogarts last words were “I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.”
nWE4B TIL on the Soviet supersonic plane Tu-144 it was so noisy people sitting next to each other could only hear each other by yelling. People sitting two seats from each other couldn't hear each other even screaming.
nEbb TIL that, statistically, women not taking birth control “kill” more fertilized zygotes than women taking birth control.