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TIL that the USA does not have an official language at the federal level. English is only the official language of 32 states.

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KW79 TIL that New York City spent nearly $1 million on typewriters in 2009, mostly for the NYPD, which still used them to fill out property and evidence vouchers, which were printed on carbon-paper forms
VMBW8 TIL: After Emperor Valerian and his army surrendered to Persia, the Persians had them do engineering and architecture as work while prisoners. As a result, The City of Shushtar is the most eastern Roman city, despite never being part of the Roman Empire.
1YnV TIL the bad grammar and spelling errors found in scam emails & phishing attempts from Nigerian princes (etc) is done on purpose; spell checkers are intentionally not used: Research from Microsoft suggests that email scammers maximise profits by entrapping only the most gullible who overlook spelling
e0ekk TIL that whale oil was used in transmission fluid in automobiles until the late 1970s.
9Wnp TIL that the guys who invented Lego are now the richest family in Denmark