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TIL that Gentoo penguins propose to one another with pebbles
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TIL that Johnny Depp hates watching himself in movies, and needs a “few bottles of wine” before he can stomach it.
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TIL A 2014 linguistics study on filler words found that 1) women use “um” ~22% more than men, 2) men say “uh” 250% more than women, & 3) men use filler words ~38% more than women
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TIL that Sierra Leone is objectively the roundest country, followed by Nauru, Zimbabwe, the Vatican City, and Poland. The least round country (excluding scattered archipelagos) is Chile
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TIL that the word ‘quite’ means 'very’ in American English, but means 'fairly’ in British English.
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TIL: Shell created scenarios called Scramble and Blueprint to deal with dwindling energy resources by 2050. Written in 2008, 15 years later the Scramble scenario has proven scarily accurate.