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TIL That Americans speak English totally different from each other

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5MQr TIL that the Queen of England sends out personalized congratulatory cards to fellow countrymen who reach their 100th and 105th birthdays, and every year thereafter. The same is done for couples celebrating their 60th, 65th, and 70th wedding anniversaries, and every year thereafter.
B5Dx TIL that George Orwell, author of 1984 and Animal Farm among others, was a Spanish Civil War veteran. He served with the Workers’ Party of Marxist Unification, an anti-Stalinist communist international brigade fighting for the Loyalist (Republican) faction.
kOoVm TIL that a species of wasp, Ampulex dementor, is named after the Dementor. This name was chosen to reflect the fact that the wasp uses a toxin to neutralise the neural behaviour of cockroaches and make them docile, as if their souls had been sucked out.
XNdX TIL drunk Japanese astronomers sent an email to another solar system in 1983 that contained the molecular formula for alcohol and ‘cheers!’ in English and kanji. It arrived at the star in 1999
d8AWd TIL: British author Agatha Christi absolutely detested her character Hercule Poirot, even going as far as to call him, "A detestable, bombastic, egocentric, little creep." She only kept writing books about his adventures at the behest of her editors, because they sold so well.