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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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woXRJ TIL about death flights. Captives would be loaded into a plane, stripped, and pushed out over the ocean. These account for 1500-2000 of the 20k-30k estimated to have been disappeared by the Argentine military between 1976 and 1983 in the Argentine Dirty War.
l70oG TIL of a mother named Kathleen Folbigg, who was imprisoned for 2 decades for murdering her 4 children. Later, she would be pardoned by the Governor after it was discovered that the deaths were instead due to an extremely rare genetic condition.
KYlmQ TIL: The Cia Cia language, an Austroniasian language spoken in Buton, an island in Indonesia, is written in the Korean alphabet (Hangul).
XEEGQ TIL Yolanda Saldivar, infamous for murdering Selena, has served everyday since her sentence in isolation, due to death threats and bounties from prison gangs and the mexican mafia.
9Y4vM TIL That in the 80s Nestle tricked African villagers by giving them free baby formula thus causing their bodies to stop producing breast milk in order to sell their product for entire infancy, they even had sales people wear "nurse" coats to advise that formula was safer than their breastmilk.