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TIL that Swiss German is mutually unintelligible to Standard German. Speakers of each language cannot necessarily understand each other.

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m9jY TIL a model airplane crossed the Atlantic on one fuel tank. It flew from Canada to Ireland and landed with only 1.8 oz of fuel left. (2003)
W88L TIL: Ant Scholar Ed Wilson created his own chemical to match the chemical given off when an ant dies. This led to live ants doused in the chemical being carried away into a giant ant grave.
kJog7 TIL: Danny Antonucci, creator of the universally-acclaimed "Ed, Edd & Eddy", had an earlier animated series on MTV, "The Brothers Grunt". It lasted only 7 months, and is considered to be one of the worst televisions shows ever made.
5an8 TIL that in 1940, while fighting the Battle of Britain and desperate to gain American support to win WW2, Great Britain handed over technologies to the USA that included radar, sonar, plastic explosives, the jet engine and the first practical calculations for the atomic bomb.
yJRp TIL Yale Cost of Attendance is $63,250 but if you cannot afford it then they allow you to attend free of charge through a “need-based grant” Yale does not require students to take out loans to attend.