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TIL hippos are actually not great swimmers. Instead, they mostly move with a sort of slow-motion gallop along the riverbed and they must be denser than water

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d81B8 TIL although English is the de facto national language in the United States, the country has no official language at the federal level
jg0v TIL Genghis Khan once ordered his starving army to eat every tenth man.
nWey7 TIL in 1922 Deputy Prime Minister to Ireland Kevin O'Higgins ordered the execution of Rory O'Connor, who was the best man at his wedding only one year prior.
gD89 TIL of the “Ramsey Effect”, which states that almost every time soccer player Aaron Ramsey scores a goal someone famous dies within a few days. “Victims” of this include Osama Bin Laden, Whitney Houston, David Bowie, and most recently, Nancy Reagan.
GAQL5 TIL: Non volatile memory onboard the Apollo spacecraft were made by manually weaving copper wires between magnetic cores, bit by bit. Software had to be perfect because any revisions to code were impossible