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TIL American Sign Language is most closely related to French Sign Language because a British institution was unwilling to share their methods.

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nee09 TIL Wilfred Owen, WWI poet and author of 'Dulce Et Decorum Est', was gay.
9Y59D TIL that a NASA intern unknowingly purchased original footage from the Apollo 11 voyage at a government auction in 1976 for $217.77. He found out over 30 years later and sold them for $1.82m at Sotheby’s.
oBO8 TIL In 2001 Kim ‘Dotcom’ purchased €375,000 of shares of a nearly bankrupt company, announced he would invest €50 million in the company, and caused the share value to jump nearly 300% . He sold his shares a few days later for €1,568,000. He’d never had the money available to invest.