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TIL In addition to the Rosetta Stone, numerous trilingually inscribed steles have been uncovered with the latest in 2004 (decree of Canopus). Any of these discoveries would have deciphered Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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1AeX TIL Cannabis was outlawed internationally by the 1961 UN convention on drug control. That means any country that legalizes marijuana will be in violation of an international treaty ratified by 180 nations.
epORE TIL Sega was founded by an American man. A veteran of the Korean War, David Rosen remained in Japan and founded Rosen Enterprises, which would go on to merge with another Japanese company and become the gaming powerhouse.
Z8xER TIL That James Earl Jones “once” used a CB radio to talk to truckers in his Darth Vader voice and used Darth as his handle. He stopped because the truckers “totally freaked out.”
LkrbV TIL The 45th Infantry Division Wore a Swastika on Their Uniforms
GY9VQ TIL The last woolly mammoth died out 1000 years after the pyramids at Giza were built.