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TIL there were over 1 million native French speakers in Louisiana in 1968; today Louisiana French is considered an endangered language.

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xVRR1 TIL Brian Jacques, author of the Redwall Series, was originally a milkman that volunteered to read to blind students along his route. Dissatisfied with the selection of children’s books available, he decided to write his own and became a best-selling author.
69eyw TIL: It's a nematodes world, and we're just living in it. 4 out of 5 animals on the planet are nematodes. For every human being on the planet, there are roughly 56 billion nematodes.
P1MJO TIL of Old Whitey, a saponified corpse floating about the engine room of the SS Kamloops sunk off Isle Royale, Lake Superior, in 1927. Unidentified to today, he follows divers around as they explore her wreck. Superior it's said never gives up her dead.
p8XRG TIL there are no railways and no roads connecting any of the towns in Greenland. Historically the major means of transportation has been by boat around the coast in summer and by dog sled in winter. Nowadays air travel, by helicopter or other aircraft, is the main way of travel.
Vbv8 TIL that there was an explosion in 1626 in China which killed 20,000 people. The cause of the explosion has not been conclusively determined.