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TIL Greenland sharks have an estimated lifespan of up to six hundred years.

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6EVRW TIL the Pledge of Allegiance was drafted as a way to sell more flags by putting one in every classroom
Y5Bv TIL Braille was originally developed as ‘Sonography’, a means for French spies in the Napoleonic Wars to communicate without the use of light. Louis Braille would later point out the flaws in the original code, creating the version we use today.
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