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

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Eg5PP TIL that despite Saturn being 8 times further from the Sun than the Earth, it also has an Aurora Borealis but is only visible by ultraviolet light.
rRNo TIL: It’s possible to register to be a bone marrow donor by mail. They send you swabs in the mail and you mail them back. Also, donating bone marrow is now painless.
X0OwE TIL the last American Civil War widow died in 2020. Helen Viola Jackson was 17 when she married 93 year old veteran James Bolin. They married so that the Jackson would be eligible for Bolin's pension after the teenager helped the elderly Bolin with chores. Jackson never applied for the pension.
lolD1 TIL that the sum of all numbers on a roulette wheel is 666.
dDYar TIL the highest gross for a single stand-up comedy performance ever is £1,410,000 ($1,790,206.50) earned by Ricky Gervais's Armageddon at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, California, on 6 May 2023.