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TIL that the government of the Czech Republic has renamed the country “Czechia”

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a5Vy TIL Braille was based on a tactile military code called night writing, developed in response to Napoleon’s demand for a means for soldiers to communicate silently at night and without a light source. It proved to be too difficult for soldiers to recognize by touch, and was rejected by the military
p8l9N TIL that median and mean age of automobiles in the USA has steadily increased since 1969, when the mean age was 5.1 years. By 2009 the median had increased to 9.4 years.
XE8wX TIL about an organization of poets in Amsterdam that read eulogies at the funerals of those who die alone and unmourned.
0weLp TIL that Randy Bachman (of Bachman Turner Overdrive) wrote the stammering parts in their hit ‘You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet’ to tease his brother Garry, who had a speech impediment when he was younger.
P10bG TIL about why so many Jeeps have rubber ducks on their dashboard