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TIL That Japanese people have a literacy rate of almost 100%.
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TIL There are islands off of the coast of Newfoundland that are the only remaining colonial territories of New France in the world
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TIL The 1836 Independent Republic of Texas included land as far north as what is now Wyoming.
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TIL: Saskatchewan (Canada) regularly holds criminal trials in their local indigenous Cree language, with Cree-speaking judges, prosecutors, and lawyers
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TIL Helsinki has a 200 mile network of underground tunnels and bunkers that could shelter the city's entire population of 630,000 in the event of invasion.
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TIL between 1977 and 2015, the college textbook industry has increased its prices by 1,041%. This was managed through aggressive business tactics such as forcing students to buy new versions of the same textbook and incorporating more pictures into a text to increase its length.