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TIL Oxford University, established in 1096AD, is older than the Aztec Civilization which emerged around 1325AD.

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R8ma TIL there is a company specialising in making hidden doorways \ rooms for your home. One requires a chess board played in a certain combo to unlock.
kOkv1 TIL of Gavel, a K-9 Cadet who was fired from the Police Academy for being too friendly after months of training; he then got a new job as Vice-Regal Dog for the Office of the Governor in Queensland where he greets visitors, attends official functions, sits in on Governor's briefings
v1NQD TIL In the Nazi Enigma code, a letter couldn't be represented by itself in the coded transmission. This flaw was exploited by Allied code-breakers and was a key part of the "Bombe" Enigma decoding machine designed by Alan Turing and engineered by Harold Keen.
l7517 TIL France detonated its 1st atomic bomb, the Blue Jerboa, on Feb. 13, 1960 in Saharan Algeria. This was the 1st of 17 nuclear weapons detonations that occurred in the area between 1960 & 1966. The Blue Jerboa was 3 times more powerful than the atomic bomb the US dropped on Nagasaki, Japan in 1945.
D196V TIL the Indian Railways transport over 23 million people everyday. For comparison, Australia has a population of 26 million.