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Today I learned birds do not sleep in their nests.

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EX8d TIL U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas did not grow up speaking English. Instead, he spoke a creole language known as Gullah that began among coastal slave communities. Thomas has said the reason he rarely speaks publicly is because he does not want any traces of it to come out in his speech
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9GkX TIL grape juice was invented in 1869 by Dr. Thomas Welch. Grapes ferment naturally and Welch wanted a nonalcoholic version for religious reasons.
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