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TIL Egyptians don't call Egypt Egypt

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KY8AQ TIL about the Ryukyu Kingdom, a sovereign state composed of Ryukyu islands (including Okinawa) which only officialy became part of Japan in 1879.
K9bR TIL that the Dwarves in the Tolkien universe are supposed to represent Jewish people. Tolkien stated:“The Dwarves of course are quite obviously—wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic.”
Vbam TIL that Apple used to add the letter “x” to the names of their computers which got a processor upgrade. The convention was broken with Macintosh SE/30, which, if the rule was effective, would be called “Macintosh SEx.”
8ebQV TIL that the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, a small songbird from Hawaii, went extinct in 1987. The last male was recorded by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, singing a mating call and waiting for a mate that would never come. He died alone, and his voice is all that remains.
9REG TIL Australia is moving so fast that they plan to adopt a moving GPS system by 2020 to compensate for the changes