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TIL that when switching languages, multilingual people also switch their personalities

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vNyB TIL that the inventor of Linux announced his project by saying “I’m doing a free operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional)”. Today it it used by ¾ of all servers, all Android devices, and the top 10 supercomputers.
Xb16 TIL that language can prompt speakers to pay attention to certain features of the world. Russian speakers are faster to distinguish shades of blue than English speakers, for example. And Japanese speakers tend to group objects by material rather than shape…
j4Vn TIL: That there is a Sizable Ethnic Minority group living in Siberia who are reputed to have the “most red-headed” people in the world.
yQ9V TIL that the U.S. Census lists prisoners as residents of the communities where they are confined. Therefore, voters who live in legislative districts with prisons, typically in rural areas, wield more political clout than other voters.
d8DxZ TIL using Fluid Dynamics to study the question, "Can a Cat Be Both a Solid and a Liquid?" won Marc-Antoine Fardin the Ig Nobel Physics Prize on September 14, 2017.