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TIL That Americans speak English totally different from each other

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v14Gx TIL Jeff Bezos is building a 10,000 Year Clock inside a remote mountain in West Texas an icon for long-term thinking. It ticks once a year, the century hand advances once every 100 years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium, and will keep time for the next 10,000 years.
l7px5 TIL Ty Cobb debuted in center field for the Detroit Tigers, three weeks after his mother killed his father
MeoLK TIL that the boots worn by the actors portraying American soldiers in Saving Private Ryan were made by the same company that supplied boots for American soldiers during the Second World War.
9wp1B TIL about the time the Thomas Jefferson teamed up with Joseph-Ignace Guillotin on a special mission for the French Crown to determine whether Mesmerism was quackery or not
l6WK TIL Americans didn’t lose their British accent, the British accent evolved; Brits used to sound more like Americans rather than vice versa