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TIL that lightsaber fights have become an official sport in France. As of 2019, it was the first country in the world to recognize it as such.

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RbM1 TIL that a secret message was engraved inside Lincoln’s pocketwatch by a jeweler, and it was not discovered until 2009.
NBjb TIL the magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast of Japan on March 11, 2011 was so strong that the vibration was felt and detected by an orbiting satellite
a8v0A TIL Rockwall, Texas is named for a wall they unearthed in 1851 but keep it buried because some people think the ~20 square-mile rectangle dike appears artificial.
x4K5 TIL that whales are so big, they can take up to 100 years of creatures consuming them to decompose
6EZ5X TIL: India is the home of 16 of the top 40 languages (# of native speakers). The number of languages listed for India is 418. Of those, 407 are living languages and 11 are extinct. Many of them have their own individual writing systems.