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TIL Toilet paper was invented in China

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lojNN TIL There is a Canadian TV anchor who translates all the English news into Inuktitut live on air. Igalaaq is the only Inuktitut supper hour TV program in the whole country where unilingual Inuktitut speakers have this one chance, for 30 minutes, to see someone speaking their language
pYGZQ TIL Tanzanians like albinos a little too much.... Tanzanian children with albinism are hunted for their body parts, as they believe the bones hold a kind of magic that will bring success and fortune
LkWGZ TIL that NYC beekeepers noticed their bees making red honey, which led to an investigation that ultimately exposed the city's largest marijuana farm in the basement of a Brooklyn cherry factory
GAZP1 TIL that the Archi language could have more than 1.5 million forms of a verb
KOJj6 TIL there are only two operating public tunnels in Florida: The 864 ft New River Tunnel in Ft. Lauderdale and the 4,200 ft Port Miami Tunnel.