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TIL Paraguay is the only country in the Americas where more people speak a native language than a colonial one (90% Guarani vs 87% Spanish)

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xVErB TIL golf balls were once smooth. Golfers eventually realized that old, beat up balls flew farther. Modern day golf balls now have dimples around them because they increase turbulence, which allow them to fly farther.
jNrj TIL some Micronesians made mock airstrips, radios, etc., and imitated military drills post WWII as religious ceremony so airplanes would deliver manufactured goods.
R7bV8 TIL people knocked on wood to request good luck from mystical creatures they believed lived in the trees or to distract spirits with evil intentions
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BrAxL TIL that during the Western Schism of the Catholic Church, there was a cardinal appointed by Antipope Benedict XIII who split with the others and, acting as the entire college of cardinals, elected someone Pope all by himself; when that guy died, he elected himself Pope all by himself.