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

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D10bJ TIL in 2001, a baby bear, lion, and tiger were rescued from a drug dealers house in Atlanta. They had bonded as a trio and remained friends for over 15 years. Usually as animals grow older, they grow apart from other species, but these three remained close and even lived in the same habitat.
Je8j TIL that receptive agnosia is an inability to understand music. Sufferers regard music as simply “noise”, often compared to drainpipes or drills, or other invasive forms of background noise.
OoZRY TIL teaching creationism (the theory that God created the Universe) has been banned in publicly funded schools in the UK since 2014. The scientific theory of evolution must be taught instead.
NNo8 TIL that the West Point Class of 1915 became known as “the class the stars fell on”. Of the 164 members of the class, 59 attained the rank of general, including Dwight Eisenhower and Omar Bradley.
x6715 TIL Phobos, one of Mars's moons, orbits a mere several thousand kilometers away from Mars's surface. That's so close, you couldn't fit Earth in between Mars and Phobos!