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TIL a set of notes, written in an unknown cypher, were found in the pocket of a dead man in 1999 and the FBI and leading cryptographers have been completely unable to crack the code.

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epOy4 TIL the 1983 film "Talking Tiger Mountain" was based on William S. Burroughs' 1979 novel "Blade Runner: a Movie" which was originally a film treatment for Alan E. Nourse's 1973 novel "The Bladerunner," the title of which (but not the story) was used in the 1982 film "Blade Runner"
BGQL TIL Internet speed at NASA is 91 gigabits per second which is 13,000 times faster then average internet speed.
Me0k7 TIL of the greenheart tree, whose wood is so strong it cannot be worked on with regular tools
R7VKl TIL about Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia woman who began taping whatever was on television in 1979 and didn't stop until her death in 2012.. The 71,000 VHS and Betamax tapes she made are the most complete collection preserving this era of TV. They are being digitized by the Internet Archive.
x6joo TIL that whisky company Diageo puts aside barrels of maturing whiskey for its pension plan