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TIL India has 29 languages with at least one million native speakers each

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wL9M6 TIL about "lonely negatives". These are words with common prefixes or suffixes such as "dis-", "in-", "un-", "-less" but they don't have positive counterparts such as the words "disgust", "disappoint", "reckless" - they don't have "gust", "appoint", or "reckful" as their opposites.
0w8y1 TIL that mandatory right-hand traffic was introduced in Europe by Napoleon with the aim of deterring swordfighting on horseback, and because the traditional left-hand traffic was seen as aristocratic. Since he never conquered Britain, left-hand driving would remain there.
L4Qd TIL George Takei spent part of his childhood in an American internment camp.
m1GVv TIL that there are more bacteria living in your mouth right now than there are human beings living on the planet.
e4YJ TIL that Muzzammil Hassan, the founder of a TV network designed to counter negative stereotypes of Muslims, murdered his wife by decapitation