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TIL as many as 800 languages are spoken in New York City, making it the most linguistically diverse city in the world.

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KOjbJ TIL A philomath is someone who greatly enjoys learning and studying. A polymath is someone who possesses great and detailed knowledge and facts from a variety of disciplines. Philosophy is the love of "wisdom" or "knowledge", rather than the process of acquisition thereof.
4QY5 TIL that Canada’s seargent at arms carries a 4.3 million dollar jewel studded golden mace which he uses to summon the parliment
grPP9 TIL that Leonardo da Vinci designed a robotic knight operated by cables. When modern engineers built a replica based on the designs, it was functional.
M7y0b TIL, like the "dearly departed," ancient Egyptians referred to their dead as "Westeners." The west bank of the Nile was considered the land of the dead most likely because the sun sets in west with the living on the east. Osiris, the God of the dead, is called Lord of the West.
jNgWQ TIL that in 2016, the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that records which document Israel's arms sales to Rwanda during the 1994 genocide will remain sealed and concealed from the public.