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TIL that 0.5% to 0.7% of all words spoken are swear words

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OGlLg TIL around the same time George Washington's family moved to Virginia, another branch of the family moved to the Netherlands and later became Bavarian nobility, the Barons Von Washington. Von Washington wrote to his relative(6 generations removed) asking to serve in the US army, but got rejected
X0aEr TIL That John Tyler Was The Only US President To Not Be Buried With The American Flag And The only US president To Be Buried With The Confederate Flag
yQxpa TIL that Bulbasaur was based on a frog, not a lizard.
4XAja TIL of Chad Varah—a priest who started the first suicide hotline in 1953 after the first funeral he conducted early in his career was for a 14-year-old girl who took her own life after having no one to talk to when her first period came and believed she’d contracted an STD.
J1ak1 TIL 3D graphics in computers are optical illusion , since the screen is 2D its all about prescriptive ( like 3D optical illusions and drawings on papers or walls)