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TIL: Canada has a higher percentage of truck ownership than the US

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EgOBP TIL that according to the CIA factbook, 12% of the world's languages are concentrated in Papua New Guinea, that contains more than 839 distinct languages.
Wxpd TIL: Males in the US are required to submit their info to the “Selective Service System” within 30 days of their 18th birthday or be subject to 5 years in jail and a $250,000 fine.
Z1Dv TIL that in one Japanese legend, Jesus Christ did not die on the cross - but made his way to Aomori where he became a rice farmer, married, and had a family.
Z8Z6R TIL that Suzanne Simard tested a theory that trees could communicate with each other. She discovered that when a Douglas Fir tree was in the shade, a Birch tree shared its carbon with the other tree.
86ob TIL Anatoli Bugorski, a Russian scientist, survived being hit directly in the face by a particle accelerator beam.