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TIL that more people in the US speak Spanish than in Spain

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kJPoW TIL that trains have sandboxes which dispense sand immediately in front of the drive wheels to give the locomotive traction on steep or slippery rails.
0WEM TIL Dr Anna Wilkinson spent six months training a tortoise to yawn to discover whether yawning was contagious in the species. It was not and her conclusion was “a negative result is still exciting”.
M7bbA TIL that there was an African Roman Emperor by the name of Lucius Septimius Severus in Ancient Roman History. He was born in what is now, present day ‘Libya’, in the African continent.
XaO6 TIL that today, the true source of the Amazon River, the world’s largest river, is still widely disputed
MolW TIL - Brad Pitt appears in Fight Club at least six times before Tyler’s first scene. Once on a moving walkway, once as a waiter on tv, and 4 times in subliminal single frame shots.