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TIL that the Chamber of Commerce is not a government agency. Instead, it is "the world’s largest business organization"

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OZdX TIL Al-Jazari, a Muslim polymath, inventor and scholar created the first robot, a female humanoid automata which washed the hands of her operators, 800 years ago.
1bpX TIL Nintendo still offers online support for the Game Boy and N64.
0wokN TIL Hangul is the alphabetic system used for writing the Korean language, but in North Korea it is known as Chosŏn muntcha. Because of the influence of Confucianism and of Chinese culture, Hangul was not used by scholars or Koreans of the upper classes until after 1945
R7Lg9 TIL about Movile Cave, a cave that was cut off from the outside world for ~5.5 million years. There are sulfuric vents in the cave and all organisms within rely on chemosynthetic bacteria that use sulfur as an energy source. >50 species live there, 35 of which are endemic(they only exist there).
O666 TIL there exists the idea, that the growing Hispanic population in the American Southwest will allow Mexico to regain these territories, called the Reconquista.