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TIL The voyager space message contains greetings in 55 languages, but is missing Swahili because the person did not show up to the studio.

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gMr8A TIL Ali Farka Touré (3-time Grammy award winner) was the tenth son of his mother but the only one to survive past infancy.
4kvOR TIL Iwo Jima changed its name back to Iōtō in 2007
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