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TIL The middle of nowhere in the US is located in Glasgow, Montana

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VBRlp TIL that all indigenous languages in Bolivia are official, hence Bolivia lists 36 languages as having official national status.
mxZBE TIL there is an island called Disappointment Island. It's uninhabited, but home to over 65,000 pairs of white-capped albatross. In 1868, a steel tanker crashed there and 68 people died, while the remaining 15 waited 18 months to be rescued. In 1907, another ship crashed there and 12 men drowned.
p8lVG TIL Astronauts report blurred vision in low-gravity environments as one of the strangest effects of spaceflight on the human body.
rN5De TIL the image of a ninja dressed all in black comes from the convention of depicting ninjas as wearing the costume of stagehands in Japanese kabuki theater
WD74 TIL that in the tv show Deadwood, The word “fuck” is said 43 times in the first hour of the show. It has been reported that the series had a total count of 2,980 “fucks” and an average of 1.56 utterances of “fuck” per minute of footage.