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TIL the Danish Language is so difficult to learn, that Danish children take longer to learn to speak than children from other countries.

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4Xo4b TIL Bessie Coleman was an American Aviator and the first black woman to earn a pilot's license.Because flying schools in the United States denied her entry,she taught herself French and moved to France,earning her license from France's well-known Caudron Brother's School of Aviation in just 7 months
b80 TIL that Angelina Jolie, Nicholas Cage, Richard Dreyfuss, Lenny Kravitz, David Schwimmer, Jonathan Silverman, Corben Bernsen, Michael Klesic, and the lady who does the voice of Marge Simpson ALL went to the same High School.
nWVxb TIL that On the Road by Jack Kerouac was typed out on a typed out on a continuous reel of paper.
oBVLA TIL in 1900s there was a death row inmates baseball team and their executions were dependent on their performance.
kJo1E TIL: the legalisation of CB radio in 1981 briefly caused a craze for the devices in the UK: even ranking among the most popular Christmas gifts that year.