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TIL that for record-keeping, the Canadian government gave Inuit people numbers as last names until 1978

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xV9gB TIL the Mariana Trench, the deepest ocean trench on earth, has been found to be more polluted than some of the most polluted rivers in China. Plastic bags and other plastic waste have been found throughout the trench, often entangling sea life.
yVldV TIL that Cher has had a single reach Number 1 on a Billboard chart in each of the last SEVEN decades.
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kOlWg TIL: With over 11 million words, Devta is the world's longest novel. It was serialised monthly in a Pakistani suspense magazine for 33 years.
GYRdE TIL that the longest filibuster in history was conducted by Strom Thurmond at over 24 hours, in an attempt to stop a bill that would give the constitutional rights to millions of African Americans. After he died, it came out that he had secretly had a black daughter.