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TIL: The Mystery of the Voynich Manuscript

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P1EDe TIL In 2020, the Polish Chancellery of the Prime Minister added the video game "This War of Mine" (based on wartime atrocities in Bosnia during the 90s) to the recommended reading list in Polish high schools. The first initiative in the world to add a video game to recommended readings in school.
9wlBD TIL it's illegal to sell whisky in Scotland that is less than 40% alcohol by volume (abv)
yBme TIL the book “The Complete Far Side” by cartoonist Gary Larson has 1272 pages and weights about 19 pounds
7BWX TIL that DeForest Kelley disliked repeating Dr. McCoy’s catchphrase “He’s dead, Jim”, which appears 20 times in the original Star Trek series. It became so famous, however, that he joked that the line would appear on his tombstone. It did appear in the first sentence of Kelley’s obituary.
xVQ7D TIL that the first aircraft autopilot was developed in 1912 and demonstrated in 1914 - and in 1947 a transatlantic flight, including takeoff and landing, was made completely under autopilot control