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TIL residents of Tangier Island, 12 miles off the coast of Virginia, have remained so isolated they still speak a dialect similar to the original colonists from the 1700s

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6ENNW TIL The Outer Space Treaty forbids any nation from trying to own the moon.
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X0LEE TIL that in the first administration of the SAT in 1926, test takers had to solve 315 questions in 97 minutes - one question every 18.5 seconds.