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TIL of the Graffito of Esmet-Akhom, the last known inscription written in Egyptian hieroglyphs, the carving was done on the 24th August 394 when Egypt was under Roman control and mostly Christian.

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ANLXa TIL of sky burial, a funeral practice in which a corpse is placed on a mountaintop and left to decompose or be eaten by vultures.
jjER TIL that the Internet has a patron saint named Saint Isidore of Seville. He compiled the knowledge of the ancient world and made it accessible for his own and future generations around 600 AD.
epmjb TIL of the Kensington Runestones discovered in Minnesota in 1898, dating back to 1366. It indicated an attack on a group of villagers leaving 10 dead while on a fishing trip. Its validity as an accurate viking runestones is disputed.
QN9l9 TIL In Aztec mythology, childbirth was regarded as a woman's struggle with the gods to ensure her child's survival. Mothers who survived were celebrated, while those who died were believed to become Cihuateteo, a vampire-like creature that stole other women's children.
mxGZE TIL of the 2020 Chernobyl exclusion wildfires that spread radiation