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

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woo7 TIL that during World War 2, US troops would use the word “lollapalooza” to root out Japanese spies. Anyone who pronounced the first two syllables as “rorra” was gunned down on sight.
W7QbY TIL the first successful insanity plea in the US was in 1859 by congressman and future Civil War general Daniel Sickles for the murder of his wife’s lover, US District Attorney Phillip Key (the son of Francis Scott Key).
rYy0 TIL that, after writing “I’m In Love with my Car,” Roger Taylor was so fond of the song that he locked himself in a cupboard until Freddie Mercury agreed to release it on the B-side of Bohemian Rhapsody’s single.
neE5Y TIL that Hitler had all the copies of the first propaganda film by Leni Riefenstahl destroyed, simply because it showed him talking closely with disgraced Nazi Ernest Röhm. Hitler had Röhm killed in the Night of the Long Knives. A single surviving print was found in England in the 1990s.
Y7XZ TIL today 43 years ago today, the first ever computer-to-computer connection is completed