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TIL United States is one of 23 countries that still has a working telegram service.

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dK1d TIL - The Chinese government has a nationwide surveillance system that they ACTUALLY NAMED Skynet
J1ne8 TIL that there is a World Championship for Microsoft Excel, (an e-sport!) which consists of solving mathematical problems and complex financial models on Excel quicker than your opponents. The 2023 winner, 'Andrew the Annihilator', got a wrestling-style belt, a trophy, and $3,000.
L7Jv TIL: The world’s oldest stash of marijuana was found in a 2,700 grave in western China. It belonged to a blue-eyed Caucasian man who was a local shaman.
lEnG TIL That the venom of Japanese giant hornets can dissolve human flesh
064p TIL of George Raveling, Nike’s director of International Basketball, who currently holds the original typewritten copy of MLK’s “I Have a Dream” speech. MLK handed it to him when he stepped off the podium, and Raveling has kept it to this day and refuses to sell it.