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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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Med4m TIL: In the UK more than 7,000 people still watch TV in black and white more than half a century after color broadcasts began.
8ekja TIL about the Anti-Tank Dog. Dogs taught to carry explosives to tanks, armored vehicles and other military targets. It failed because they would train the dogs using their own tanks and would mine friendly tanks instead.
w0vo TIL bananas have more trade regulations than AK-47s
YpAbG TIL that an overwhelming majority, 91%, of reported missing children cases are endangered runaways
4vYJ TIL Caterpillars “Melt” Almost Completely Before Growing Into Butterflies in the Chrysalis