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TIL that in non-English speaking countries, Dora the Explorer teaches you... English!

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a8nob TIL that during an equinox, the daytime and nighttime aren't equal. There's another term for that: equilux.
jXJQ TIL 90% of Scotch whisky made in Scotland is exported.
yQnJ8 TIL the Space Force emblem isn’t copied from Star Trek. The army airforce used the logo as far back as the 1940s. The starfleet logo was influenced by the military, not the other way around.
bj70 TIL the more (and longer) a person drinks alcohol, the more damage they’ll inflict on the parts of their brain controlling impulse and judgment.
9wl7X TIL William Huggins’s first spectroscopic observations, published in 1863, showed that stars are composed of the same elements that occur on the Sun and Earth