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

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6DwY TIL “Cowabunga” was originally a nonsense word used by Chief Thundercloud on “The Howdy Doody Show” in the early ‘50s. It was then adopted for use by surfers and later on, the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Bart Simpson.
epeBD TIL About Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming who became the first head of what is now known as the SIS in the UK. He had the habit of signing official documents with the letter 'C' in green ink a tradition which carried over to his successors and was the inspiration for James Bond's 'M'.
GOO7 TIL in 1973 while performing a concert in San Francisco, Keith Moon, the drummer for ‘The Who’ passed out because of severe drug and alcohol intoxication and was rushed to the hospital. Shortly afterwards a fan named Scot Halpin went on stage and finished the show in Keiths place.
mxA8P TIL the football huddle originated at Gallaudet University, a school for the deaf, when the team noticed their opponents were trying to read their signs in order to guess their plays.
OMya TIL that a truckload of bananas can trip nuclear weapon scanners because of the slight radiation each banana gives off from their potassium isotopes