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TIL there's an ancient whistled language that's now "spoken" by only a few people

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Oap7 TIL that UPS, FedEx and other delivery companies receive about 7,000 parking tickets per day in NYC alone, contributing $102 million per year to the city’s budget
Brwjk TIL The original Flash Gordon and Buck Rogers series helped to inspire George Lucas's Star War series to include an "opening crawl," a signature device used in the opening sequence of every numbered film. Star Wars used the famous opening crawl, "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...."
BNae TIL that there is a large body of evidence that suggests that the attack on Pearl Harbor could have easily been avoided if the president had released vital information to the public and Navy commanders.
PD8E TIL: There is a 500-year-old Beer Purity Law still in effect today in Germany. It was decreed on April 23, 1516, by Munich’s Duke Wilhelm, protecting the country’s beer drinkers from contaminants, chemicals and any other additives that unsavory merchants might have thought of adding.
eEX6 TIL Astronaut Ed Mitchell said of his experience on the moon in 1971: “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch.’”