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TIL for learning the mohawk language and documenting it in the field of lingustics, Alexander Graham Bell was given the title of “honorary chief”.

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kOLve TIL "Live Free or Die" New Hampshire lives up to its motto by being the only US State not requiring adults to fasten a seat belt
7885x TIL Chiclets get their name from the Chicle tree, this trees sap being a prehistoric form of chewing gum.
0NVN TIL there is currently a community of people living on top of a mountain in France. They believe that on December 21, aliens will emerge from the mountain to save them from the apocalypse.
WGlX TIL the last princess of Korea died in 1989, after 37 years spent in Japan, returning to Korea in tears, and resided in Changdeok Palace until her death, the last royal resident to reside there. Her parents would’ve been the last Emperor and Empress of Korea had it not been annexed to Japan in 1910.
KK7G TIL George Carlin requested he wear a bandage over his wedding ring when he played Cardinal Glick in the film DOGMA. Carlin’s wife had died before filming and he wasn’t ready to remove his wedding band. Kevin Smith obliged.