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TIL: The oldest time capsule in the US was buried in 1795 by Governor Samuel Adams and Paul Revere in a cornerstone of the Massachusetts State House and was found by accident in 2014 by workers trying to fix a water leak

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jM5v TIL that the pilot episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog was nominated for “Best Animated Short Film” at the 1995 Academy Awards.

R7vYw TIL The meter (metre) was originally defined to be one ten millionth of the distance between the North Pole and the Equator through Paris

neKDP TIL there was a successful "real life" demonstration of driverless automobile technology over 60 years ago in Lincoln, Nebraska. Broader implementation stalled due to a lack of interest from other states in funding the necessary infrastructure.

KYjda TIL that dust from the Sahara Desert helps fertilize the Amazon Rainforest, despite being an ocean away.

gMayA Around 1 million people in Ireland—as well as 20,000 people in the United States—can speak Irish. It’s an ancient and unfamiliar-looking language in the Celtic group, making it a linguistic cousin of other ancient languages like Welsh, Scots, Manx, and Breton. To English speakers though, it’s a tough language to master. It has a relatively complex grammar that sees words inflected in an array of different contexts ignored in English. It uses a different word order from English that places the verb, rather than the subject, at the head of the clause. And it uses an alphabet traditionally comprising just 18 letters, so words are often pronounced completely differently from what an English speaker might expect.