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TIL There are 41 countries that recognize sign language as an official language

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QJRyk TIL, a bank teller refused to cash Charlize Theron's check when she first came to Hollywood; so she engaged in a shouting match with him. A talent agent, waiting behind her, handed her his business card and subsequently introduced her to casting agents. She made her film debut several months later.
8aoEL TIL: Northwest Angle, MN was created when map maker, John Mitchell miscalculated the source of the Mississippi being the Lake of The Woods.
VBNwk TIL that in 2022, a Minneapolis man had a damaged tree on his lawn sculpted into a 16-foot-tall No. 2 Pencil, and every year since there is a sharpening party
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