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TIL there’s a website that catalogs people with different accents reading the same story in English… and you can access them for free!

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j6oEv TIL the first incumbent US President to visit the UK was Woodrow Wilson in December 1918
4O8b TIL that Iceland gets 100% of its energy from renewable sources.
J1ljm TIL that Arches National Park in Utah has a rock column known as The Phallus
yQZPw TIL of Marv Heemeyer Who built an armoured bulldozer After losing an appeal in the council against construction of a concrete plant and destroyed his own shop, the concrete plant, city hall, fr. mayor's house,, a hardware store. In the end he killed himself, the only fatality of the event.
kJrJ4 TIL that it's "I were" if the situation is imaginary and "I was" if the situation happened in the past Eg, I was at the gym, If I were a billionaire. Which makes the song I wish I was a baller, a little bit taller grammatically incorrect