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TIL only 20% of USA kids learns a foreign language relative to 92% of European kids

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rRabx TIL that Kazimierz Piechowski managed to escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp by stealing SS uniforms and a car. He and his 4 companions then drove to the gate, yelled at the guards to open, and drove off.
W7oRd Today I learned that in 1985 the US shot down a satellite in orbit with an F-15
b9jg9 TIL about 'Factory Schools' which is about how our education system builds most of us as product for some factory/org keeping us in dark about various aspects of human life.
DdEp TIL 60% of cigarettes in New York are black market cigarettes that are being smuggled into New York illegally.
kVD4 TIL that the government of Denmark recreated it’s entire nation, block-for-block, in Minecraft to help kids get excited about geography. Only to have hackers dynamite the towns and erect American flags over the rubble.