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TIL of Kryptos, an art installation featuring 4 chunks of encrypted text. The last fragment has yet to be solved.

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VBAV0 TIL that a bird(penguin) can go to greater depths in the ocean than most fish
kNwW TIL: The Canadian RCMP systematically slaughtered the sled dogs of the Inuit until as late as the 1970s
9YG0M TIL "Buffalo Gals" [The song sung by Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed in the movie "It's a Wonderful Life"] was written about the prostitutes of Canal St. in Buffalo N.Y., the Wickedest Street in the World with its “ladies “of the fancy ways.”"
gomA TIL Humanity has produced an estimated 108 billion individual people over the past 50,000 years. That means today’s 7 billion people represent about 6.5 percent of everyone who’s ever lived.
LkPvV TIL that George R.R. Martin still writes his "A Song of Ice and Fire" books on a 1980's MS-DOS computer running the text-processing program Wordstar 4.0