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Today I learned that sign languages also have accents.

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0dekR TIL that Nectanebo II was the last of the native Egyptian kings. Since then (340 BC) Egypt has been ruled by non-natives till the Egyptian revolution in 1952.
LQok9 TIL of “Raining Blobs in Oakville,”a phenomenon that occurred in Oakville, Washington, in 1994, where gelatinous blobs fell from the sky. These blobs contained human white blood cells and made people ill, though their origin remains a mystery.
GA9Y1 TIL at over 16,000 ft., La Rinconada, Peru is the highest permanent settlement in the world. Surrounded by gold mines, the town has a population of 30,000 people. It has no running water or sewage system and has little to no government presence.
AK8n TIL that there are two other wizards inhabiting Middle-Earth that aren’t mentioned in the Lord of the Rings trilogy or The Hobbit; their names are Alatar and Pallando.
mx4aR TIL the Great Dismal Swamp (at the border of North Carolina and Virginia) held the largest "Maroon" colony (escaped slaves and their descendants) in the United States. Most managed to stay hidden despite militia invasions that aimed to capture them, and only left the swamp after the civil war.