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TIL the Language with the largest dictionary by number of words is Tamil with 1,347,142 headwords followed by Korean with 1,149,538

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vPGNr TIL one big obstacle standing in the way of clean energy in California is the lack of high tension power lines that can move the electricity. Developing the new grid to accommodate solar farms may take a decade.
Mby7 TIL federal prisoners must pay $0.05 per minute to read and type emails, despite earning as little as $0.23 per hour
d8gQj TIL About Polyphonic Singing - singing two notes at the same time
lov0G TIL Young children will often effortlessly write in perfect mirror image because they haven't yet unlearned the idea that every object in the world is the same thing regardless of its orientation. 'Mirror writing' comes easily to them. Eg; A teddy is a teddy upside down or not, but a 'p' is not 'b'.
6E0WX TIL The Shroud of Turin, the alleged linen cloth covering the burial of Jesus, was closely examined in 1988 in laboratories in Switzerland, England and the United States using carbon-14 dating techniques. The study concluded that it originated in the Middle Ages between 1260 and 1390.