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TIL there is a dialect of German only spoken in Texas.

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DaWV TIL when Ben & Jerry’s was founded they followed a 5 to 1 salary ratio where the highest paid employee could make only 5 times the lowest’s salary.
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JYnMB TIL- Sir Roberrt Watson-Watt, the inventor of the RADAR was caught speeding with a RADAR gun. He reportedly said "My God, if I'd known what they were going to do with it, I'd have never have invented it!'"
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5VARn TIL when Brazilian football/soccer player Pelé died last December, he was survived by his 100-year-old mother, Celeste, who, given her advanced age, did not understand her son's death. Pelé's sister Maria Lucia do Nascimento described their mother as "in her own little world."