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TIL That Ancient Egyptian still exists as a language. It is called Coptic, and is the liturgical language of the Coptic Church

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KOAp4 TIL that in 1980s in small town in Missouri, a horrible town bully was killed in front of 46 witnesses, and not a single one of them wanted to say who did it
KObww TIL Marvel's near collapse led to dominance. In The 90’s they desperately sold film rights to their characters for operating capital. A few hits(Blade & X-Men) led studios to consider the comic movie viable. Failure by most caused many of the rights to return to Marvel, who created Marvel Studios.
4X57w TIL East Germany produced almost unbreakable "superfest" drinking glasses in order to not waste resources. After reunification production was shut down as no manufacturer had any interest in the technology, or in a product which would “slow down” sales
KO5oa TIL about Elina Powell, a black nurse who served during WWII. She was assigned to work at a POW camp, like most African-American nurses at the time, and fell in love with a German POW there. They married and had children despite it being illegal in both the U.S and Germany during this time period.
R7gY9 TIL: An Officer in the Air Force was fired for questioning whether or not a drunk President should have the power to launch a nuclear strike.