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TIL “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” is the wordiest show on TV with 176.2 words per minute, which makes the Rob McElhenney-created FX sitcom the hardest series to follow if you’re watching with subtitles.

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QRGe TIL that if pigs are not castrated the meat will have an unpleasant odor when cooked; referred to as “Boar Taint.”
neaNP TIL about ablaut reduplication, which is an interesting and necessary rule in the english language that most people are unaware of. This rule pertains to the order in which we say repeated words with changing vowels. E.g saying ding-dong sounds completely normal whereas dong-ding sounds insane.
DJ8V TIL that everything you say to Siri is sent to Apple, analyzed and stored on Apple servers for up to two years.
A40d TIL that in the 1880s, a man tried to make a living by jumping off bridges to gain fame and recognition. After he died penniless jumping off a low bridge on a drunken bet, his mother was quoted as saying: “I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living.”
LQljr TIL research on price anchoring has found that more precise numerical first offers are more effective than those that have been rounded off.