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TIL that Ancient Greek was the official language of Greece until 1976.

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J1ydv TIL Bermuda has no indigenous population, and has only been permanently settled since 1609.
OLm6 TIL the memory technique that Sherlock Holmes uses, known as a “Mind Palace”, is a real technique and that most of the people who have mastered this practice are of average intelligence.
X0p96 TIL that in 1069 Norman forces perpetrated a genocide in northern England called ‘the Harrying of the North’
P1jvL TIL Simón Bolívar, born into Venezuela’s wealthy elite, voluntarily gave up his fortune and freed his own slaves to lead independence wars against colonial powers, becoming an enduring icon revered by leftist militias across South America today
R5o91 TIL the Solar System is much, much larger than I thought; Pluto is located at 39 Astronomical Units from the sun, while the Oort cloud, formed by billions or even trillions of asteroids, starts at around 2 to 5 thousand AUs from the sun and ends at around 10 to 100 thousand.