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TIL that native English speakers are never taught the correct way to order adjectives: they just know it

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dJ0Q TIL there are more Tajik people in Afghanistan than Tajikistan, and more Afghans in Pakistan than Afghanistan
A184 TIL that caterpillars form ‘processions’ of up to 300 insects in a row, mimicking a snake so as to avoid being picked off by predators
loxb7 TIL Marilyn Monroe was discovered while working at the Radioplane factory in 1945. She worked on the first ever remote controlled drones during WWII.
rNYa4 TIL A dead body left on Mars would dry out and mummify better than Egyptian mummies. The first few stages — algor mortis (body cools), livor mortis (blood pools), and rigor mortis (muscles stiffen) — would still take place. But there would be no other overt signs of decomposition.
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