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TIL Buttload is an unit of measurement

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OoZGX TIL that due to tidal deceleration, every new day is longer than the last. Within 50,000 years, each day will be approx 1 second longer. Give it another 180 million years and we'll all have an extra hour every single day.
Bgn9e TIL Papua New Guinea has the most languages spoken within its borders in the world with 840 established languages
BrpYK TIL that the “ah-choo” sound people make when sneezing is a cultural learned behavior. For example, in the Phillipines they instead say “ha-ching”, the Japanese say “hakashun”, and deaf people don’t add any sounds at all.
PYAxJ TIL Giant Pandas are not evolutionary deadends. Humans are just destroying their habitats faster than they can adapt.
MeNeB TIL about the "Dumbest Member of Congress" William L. Scott, US Senator from Virginia who being briefed by members of the military about missile silos in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, reportedly said "Wait a minute! I'm not interested in agriculture. I want the military stuff."