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Today I learned the BBC runs a pidgin English news service.
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TIL the creation of Daft Punk’s name originated from a British journalist calling their original band, Darlin’, “a bunch of daft punk”. The third member of Darlin’, not liking the new more-electronic vibe, left and formed the band Phoenix.
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TIL that John Adams’s daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy without anesthesia in 1811
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TIL the fruit fly species drosophila bifurca’s sperm is 5.8cm long, over twenty times its body length
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TIL that in 1925, a recently independent Ireland spent the one fifth of it’s annual budget on a Hydro-Electric Plant in efforts to modernize the country. At it’s peak it provided 96% of Ireland’s electricity - today it provides 2%.
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TIL that the average Bugatti customer has about 84 cars, 3 jets and one yacht