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TIL Chinese has so many characters that even China’s standard dictionary once forgot to include 30 already used in its preface

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WkZjN TIL The Uto-Aztecan language family, to which the ancient and modern Aztec languages belong, was historically so widespread beyond the Aztec Empire that the language family has speakers as far north as Idaho
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