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Short answer: You’re less distracted by your native tongue.

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Zpv0o TIL that scientists used a dating method to show a Viking ax cut trees on the North American continent exactly 1000 years ago, in 1021 C.E. This dating method uses a spike in solar radiation that left a mark in tree rings around the world. This proves the Vikings arrived before Christopher Columbus.
45l6 TIL the Holodomor Genocide was a man made famine that killed millions in Soviet Ukraine from 1932-1933.
ZpXp TIL that overweight and obese people now outnumber starving and malnourished people.
prRN TIL U.S. advertising is banned in outer space, so JPL wasn’t allowed to put their name on Curiosity. Instead, the wheels will print “JPL” in morse code wherever the rover goes
LkD0d TIL the Deep Note, also known as the "THX Note", was designed and synthesized in 1983 by James A. Moorer after 2 years of development using a 19" rack full of digital hardware. It is perceived as much louder than it is due to the large number of overlapping voices - the original version has 30.