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TIL there are over 7000 spoken languages in the world.
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TIL Jackie Chan turned down to play the main antagonist "Koji Sato" for the 1989 film Black Rain because he feared audiences would hate to see him play as the bad guy. Harrison Ford and Kurt Russell were highly considered for the main protagonist "Nick Conklin" before Michael Douglas was cast.
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TIL that children don’t detect sarcasm till they’re about 6 and don’t get the humor in it till they’re about 10
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TIL Oklahoma's 2016 Teacher of the Year moved to Texas in 2017 for a higher salary.
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TIL about Kim Kahana. He survived a firing squad in the Korean War and later was the sole survivor of an airplane crash that killed 32. He earned a Silver Star, 2 Bronze Stars and 2 Purple Hearts. He has 6 black belts in karate, aikido and jujutsu. He has a long and successful career in films.
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TIL China has the most skyscrapers in the world. It has so many in fact that the next 13 countries combined still have less skyscrapers than China.