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TIL a Japanese/English creole language exists

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PPLL TIL that printers leave unique signatures on every page they print, so each piece of paper can be tracked down to the printer. This also explains why you cannot print in black and white if you have no yellow ink.
rd7d TIL Antarctica is officially considered a desert, thus making it the largest desert in the world.
xJKD TIL Christine Maggiore was an activist with HIV who said it didn’t cause AIDS. She convinced thousands of people not to test for AIDS and to have unprotected sex. When she got pregnant she didn’t use medication to prevent the risk of transmission; her daughter died at age 3. Maggiore died of AIDS.
gMbL8 TIL During the making of the 1942 German movie 'The Great Love' unable to find background extras who matched the height of the lead actress Zarah Leander, SS guards were brought in and dressed up as women and used instead.
9rLr TIL that “second”, which can refer to the number two item in a sequence, is used as a time unit because it is the “second” division of an hour by sixty.