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TIL in languages with heavy declension speakers can arrange sentences any way they want, with an abundance of word modifications carrying the grammatical meaning. English is not, it uses syntax (word order) to convey meaning.

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KYDJw TIL about The Cure for Insomnia, an experimental movie released in 1987 by a man named John Henry Timmis IV, that held the Guinness World Record for longest film at around 87 hours. It consists of an artist reading a 4,080 page poem, and there are believed to be no copies left.
6rbY TIL JFK’s Harvard essay was only five sentences long
P1jjJ TIL about the radiation version of banana for scale
pZGb TIL there is a giant softshell turtle that spends 95% of its life buried and motionless under river sand, surfacing just twice a day to take a breath.
ZvLv TIL Shakespeare’s plays were so popular that pirated copies were made. Reporters would attend a performance and quickly write down the play’s entire text in shorthand as it was spoken. The pirated copies often had errors due to the reporters making mistakes while writing.