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TIL that An astounding 47 percent of the residents of the city of Detroit are functionally illiterate.

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VMyWk TIL the Inka never developed writing but instead had a system of tying knots called khipu in which the color, direction and structure of the knots communicated different information. While most of it is numerical, fully cracking the code reveal a phonetic khipu alphabet with records of history.
5dvB TIL that Google is claiming users have no expectation of privacy in their legal defenses, while promising users their privacy is Google’s top priority everywhere else.
b67N7 TIL that because of their flexible ankles, red pandas are one of the few animals that can climb down trees head-first.
LQDrm TIL about the fall of Alan Magee. A B-17 ball turret gunner in World War II, Magee fell more than 20,000 feet without a parachute when his plane was destroyed by flak. He smashed through the roof of a French railroad station, survived, and spent the rest of the war in a prison camp.
0E0j TIL Africanized bee, known as Killer bees, are breed hybrids that accidentally escaped lab quarantine and since then have spread throughout the Americas.