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TIL About Nüshu: China’s secret female-only language

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n1lY TIL the last surviving Civil War veteran lived long enough to have seen television.
4X916 TIL last year, the Indian Air Force fired a million dollar missile at a Pakistani balloon that said 'Happy Birthday' on it.
d8xZK TIL that Sperm Whale vomit, or "Ambergris", is very valuable and is used to make perfumes, due to its pleasant smell.
5VwPD TIL that Robert Hooke has been called “England’s Leonardo.” He discovered microorganisms and a law of elasticity; observed the rotation of planets; revolutionized city planning; and presaged theories of optics, gravity, and evolution.
VMpMm TIL The Russian city of Blagoveshchensk, population 220,000, looks over the river at the Chinese city of Heihe, home to almost 2 million. They form a free trade zone where Russians cross into China to go on shopping trips, while Chinese tourists enter Blagoveshchensk daily to take city tours