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TIL use of the word “Faggot” on Twitter drops ~25% on Saturdays

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OGaxR TIL that all hippopotamus in Colombia are descendants of hippopotamus brought in by Pablo Escobar, with their numbers ranging from 80 to 100s in Colombia.
wLYXM TIL that there's a cattle station in Australia that is bigger than the entire country of Israel.
E06P TIL that German and Japanese trains are so punctual, they offer “Delay Certificates” so that you can prove you’re late because of train delays.
kOM0m TIL the Rubik's Cube was so popular in the 80's that the best selling book in 1981 was about solving techniques, selling over 6 million copies
Ab44 TIL That Charles M. Schulz, the genius behind the comic strip Peanuts, wrote the comic every day until the day he died. The final strip was published the next day, meaning that as he predicted, the comic outlived him.