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TIL the country Papua New Guinea has over 840 languages spoken within the nation, by far the most in the world.

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MerJA TIL that the inventor of the windshield wipers, a simple yet necessary car accessory, was a woman. Mary Andersen filed her patent in 1903 and called her invention a "window cleaning device" for electric cars and other vehicles.
l7pya TIL the last two American Democratic presidents to die were Lyndon B Johnson, who became president when Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and Harry S Truman, who was president in 1945 during WWII.
lopQN TIL that during the time of the 3rd Reich, the Hitler Youth planted larches in a pine forest so that when autumn came it looked like a swastika from the air.
eAmn TIL Carrie Fisher and George Lucas appear in the 1991 movie “Hook” (as uncredited extras, the kissing couple on the bridge).
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