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TIL Whale foreskin is used to make leather goods.

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wLnbM TIL in 1979, deaf Nicaraguan schoolchildren invented a new language. The new Sandinista government opened the first school for the deaf, bringing large numbers of deaf children together for the 1st time. Nicaraguan Sign Language is the only language created to have been recorded from its birth.
J8AV TIL that the fastest 9-year-old today could have won bronze at the 100m sprint at the 1896 olympics.
dw6K TIL there was a ‘Little Ice Age’ in the 1810s, that ended in a year without summer. It was dubbed “Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death”
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