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TIL cities house 62.7% of the US population but occupies only 3.5% of land area

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6EJKY TIL With the Norman conquest of Britain in 1066 the French took over England. The lower-class were the hunters so animal names persist, and the upper-class French only saw the butchered meats. As a result, we refer to beef (boeuf), pork (porc) and mutton (mouton) instead of cow/pig/sheep.
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9wyrX TIL that in 2004, Dragon Tales was watched by 11 million viewers weekly and was the highest-rated children's television program with kids aged 2-5 across all broadcast and cable networks
nejJP TIL Nazi Germany spent 50% more on the V2 rocket program than the U.S. did on the Manhattan Project to develop the atomic bomb
P1j4E TIL that typhoid fever and typhus are two different diseases, caused by two unrelated strains of bacteria. This was not known until the 1800s. The word “typhoid” means “resembling typhus.”