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

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N7Re6 TIL black stones in Go are manufactured to be slightly larger compared to the white ones, to compensate for the optical illusion of white objects looking bigger when placed adjacent to black objects.
0wBdR TIL in the ‘30s Soichi Sakamoto, 6th grade teacher in Maui, developed H.I. interval training for competitive swimming. Soichi had no experience as a swimmer & coach. He used irrigation ditches to train. A number of his pupils medaled in the Olympics, and many of his training methods are used today.
6rJJ TIL Soaking up grease from a slice of pizza with a napkin saves you about 40 calories.
VRX0 TIL that there are some females who have one extra type of cone (4 instead of 3) and can therefore see 100x the amount of colors regular people can. [tetrachromacy]
wog0W TIL Sherlock Holmes is the most portrayed literary human character in film and TV. 254 times as of 2012 ,by 75 actors