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TIL Yoda, of the Star Wars universe, uses sentences that follow the object-subject-verb pattern. This pattern is only found in 0.3% of the world’s languages. This is called anastrophe, in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.

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5pGP TIL The Army is looking to build ammo that is biodegradable and also contains seeds. Instead of training grounds being polluted with metal slugs, these grounds will grow flowers which will consume help biodegradable the munitions.
LJR9 TIL: After investigating a possible hack into the Verizon infrastructure, they found that one of their developers had outsourced his job to a Chinese development firm. The firm did such an outstanding job that the developer was widely considered the best developer at Verizon.
jNJlv TIL of Ralph Lazo, a 17-year old American student of Mexican and Irish descent, who voluntarily relocated to a World War II Japanese American internment camp, to provide moral support and share in his friends’ struggle; he would spend three years living there
k7DB TIL there was a lost chapter in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” that had nine children originally in the factory alongside Charlie, his mom accompanying him inside, and features a room called the Pound and Cutting Room that kills two of the kids
6E4lW TIL that the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite constantly losing large sums of mass, it has only lost roughly 0.05% of its original mass over the last 4.5 billion years.