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TIL in 1979, deaf Nicaraguan schoolchildren invented a new language. The new Sandinista government opened the first school for the deaf, bringing large numbers of deaf children together for the 1st time. Nicaraguan Sign Language is the only language created to have been recorded from its birth.

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Oo9a6 TIL about Chai Ling, a student leader during the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre. She advocated to continue protesting until a bloodshed would change China, but when interviewed before the incident about whether she herself would attend the protests, she answered no, cause she wanted to live.
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