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

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7rpDZ TIL local ABC affiliates owned by Sinclair Media refused to air "Saving Private Ryan" when it was aired nationally on Veterans Day 2004. Sinclair judged that the movie was "obscene" because it "contains numerous unedited uses of the F-word".
XEY98 TIL "Raisin-BRAN" lost it's trademark in 1944 when a court ruled the name was too generic for trademark protection. Skinner Manufacturing Company introduced Raisin-BRAN in 1925 and enjoyed monopoly until 1942 when Post and Kellogg introduced competing products with the same name
MeZja TIL: In 2006 a lost Christian gospel was translated and read for the first time in over 1500 years. In The Gospel of Judas, Jesus says the Abrahamic God is an evil lesser God named Saklas that created humanity, but that there is a higher God named Barbelo that he is the Son of.
xpjb TIL In the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833, Britain had to use one third of its entire national budget to buy all the slaves so that they could be freed.
RW11 TIL There is an island in the Bahamas whose inhabitants are 20 pigs that swim off the beaches all day