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TIL the United States has no Official Language

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d8VKQ TIL that Singapore has been physically growing its borders for years by literally importing sand from other countries. Since independence, Singapore has increased its physical landmass by more than 20% already resulting in the complete disappearance of 24 islands in the Indonesian archipelago.
loDGK TIL that "salting the earth" was a way to totally screw a vanquished enemy by poisoning their land so nothing would grow there. Obvious question: how did they get that much salt?
X0rKP TIL Ian Curtis of Joy Division died before John Lennon
neWX9 National Geographic explorer Luke Powell tells you about some of the worst bird parents out there – brood parasites. These birds don’t build nests, but sneak their eggs into other birds’ nests and fly.
EgnaX TIL Sigmund Freud made the decision to flee Austria after his daughter Anna was interrogated by the Gestapo for nearly 12 hours. He was able to buy safe passage out of Austria just in time with 31,000 Reich marks in 1938