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TIL New Zealand’s biggest export sector is its agriculture but its farmers, unlike US and EU farmers, receive zero government subsidies.

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BrDnd TIL Japanese typewriters have a different kind of design then the other typewriter to accommodate 2400 Kanji characters it has a cylindrical design and typing is slow and hectic as you have to search an enter only one character from array of 2400 characters
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