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nePgd TIL that Michael Bay's science fiction film "Armageddon" received the prestigious Criterion Collection treatment, dedicated to publishing important classic and contemporary films from around the world.
yVy8p TIL If you speak only one language you are a minority(40%) as most of the world speaks two(43% of people) or more languages.
rNR0e TIL the Greek orator Demosthenes was said to treat his speech impediment by talking with pebbles in his mouth and shouting above the roar of the ocean waves.
LkrQ TIL that speakers of the tonal language Mandarin are 10x more likely to develop perfect pitch than native English speakers (bottom graph page 5).
D1rdp TIL Mao Zedong's English interpreter Ji Chaozhu moved to New York in 1939 at age 9, to avoid the war and spent a year at Harvard before returning to China in 1950. He worshipped Mao and remember the Chairman as “serene,” “regal,” and “mentally far away, at peace.”