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TIL Sign Language is one of three official languages of New Zealand.

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wLVvP TIL until the 1980s all freight trains in the USA and Canada were required to have a caboose with a crew. They were replaced by the "end-of-train device" which detects and reports any problems to the engineer, ending an era in railway history.
OGx0e TIL that the Mawangdui Silk Texts, discovered in a tomb in China, are ancient manuscripts from the 2nd century BCE. They contain early Taoist texts, medical theories, and the earliest known maps, all written on silk.
oB4Br TIL Bhutan is the world's only carbon negative country. The constitution demands at least 60% of the country covered in forest, making it a sink of over four million tonnes of CO2 per year.
rNEwW Til that Marcus Junius Brutus, the most famous of the assassins of Julius Caesar, divorced his wife for no reason and married his first cousin Porcia
0wYbR TIL that English is the most efficient language