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TIL TVs were banned in Bhutan until June of 1999

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aw7Z9 TIL that in 2014, a sinkhole opened up under the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky. The 40 foot wide sinkhole swallowed eight rare or one-of-a-kind cars but didn't impact the structural integrity of the building.
ML4K TIL that in WW1 only two nations did not execute their soldiers for desertion, the United States and Australia.
NX7x6 TIL Taushiro, Tanema and Kaixana are the least spoken languages in the world, with only one speaker each. They are languages of Peru, Solomon Islands and Brazil, respectively.
m1XkM TIL that the plastic garbage bag was invented by three Canadians in 1950
X0JvQ TIL traditionally, Japanese cuisine does not include salmon sushi. However, in the 1980s, Norwegian producers sought to increase sales of their abundant salmon by inventing salmon sushi.