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

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d8YQK Everybody poops—around a pound a day, in fact—and everybody wants a clean butt. Good old TP has come a long way since the first commercial toilet paper was marketed 162 years ago, and you might be surprised at how much Research & Development goes into each roll.
OY51 TIL that in 1953 the U.S and U.K. worked together to overthrow the Democratic Iranian government.
9wxb7 TIL that gun manufactures lobbied for legal immunity from lawsuits, successfully passing the "PLCAA" in 2005
xV8OB TIL in 1960 a Russian man with a bomb tried to hijack Trans Australia Airlines Flight 408. The co-pilot punched him in the face and ripped the wires off the bomb saving everyone on board.
0X5L TIL that the United States tried to buy Greenland in 1946 but Denmark refused to sell it.