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TIL the Rosetta Stone was not meant as a way to translate hieroglyphics, it was a government document containing three languages (Hieroglyphics, Greek and Demotic) so that all the people of Egypt at the time could read it

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N71KP TIL That concert speakers that are placed further away from the stage need to have their incoming signals delay, in order to accommodate for the difference between the speed of electricity, and the speed of sound.
wLLJY TIL that Emperor Commodus would club citizens of Rome missing their feet tethered together to death while pretending they were giants in the arena.
MeplB TIL in 1997, Apple was weeks away from going bankrupt until Steve Jobs returned
oB8Mo TIL in 2007 a Chinese company sold a sofa model with an inappropriate label after their translation software translated the Chinese characters for "dark brown" as "n***er brown".
d68 TIL a Hollywood actress, Hedy Lamarr, invented the basis for modern WiFi and bluetooth in 1941