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TIL Portuguese is most spoken language in the southern hemisphere

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pZoO TIL in 2007 a man was named “greatest traveller on Earth”, after visiting every country and territory in the world between 1955 and 2005
grE1A TIL that Koji Kondo, the composer and sound director of the first game of the franchise The Legend of Zelda, had to give up the idea of using Maurice Ravel's Bolero as the soundtrack for the game, as the work was not free of rights then.
R9O1 TIL the US Women’s National Team has finished in 1st, 2nd or 3rd in every FIFA World Cup
NlZ1 TIL that when Japan Airlines flight 123 crashed in Japan in 1985 killing over 500 people, a JAL maintenance official negotiating compensation with families killed himself to apologize for the accident.
nebdd TIL That the majority of the Higgins boats which delivered troops to the D-Day invasion beaches were piloted by members of the U.S. Coast Guard.