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TIL There is a language called Esperanto that was intended to be a universal second language for international communication.

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B7pW TIL just 20% of adults ages 18 to 29 are married, compared with 59% in 1960.
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pAp8 TIL A researcher once played a recording of an elephant who had died. The sound was coming from a speaker hidden in a thicket. The family went wild calling, looking all around. The dead elephant’s daughter called for four days afterward.