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TIL that the RMS Carpathia, the ship that picked up the Titanic survivors, was sunk by a German submarine six years later.

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8pBP TIL the last two speakers of an indigenous language in Mexico refuse to converse with each other because they don’t get along
R74a1 TIL that where your tongue sits at rest depends on your native language. If it’s English, your tongue rests at the roof of your mouth, behind your upper teeth. However, if your first language is Russian or German, your tongue rests at the bottom of your mouth, behind the lower teeth, when not in use
9LMG TIL: The Zika virus is the first insect-borne disease that has been shown to pass from human to human by sexual contact. Zika is normally transmitted by mosquitoes. It has symptoms similar to dengue fever.
kKvE TIL that solstices, the days with either the most or least sunlight, don’t have either the earliest or latest sunrises or sunsets of the year.
ma9M TIL of an experiment in a hospital where the sign at a hand-washing station was changed from “Hand hygiene prevents you from catching diseases” to “Hand hygiene prevents patients from catching diseases” resulting in a 45% increase in the use of soap or hand sanitizer.