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TIL how a centuries old inscription on a boulder was deciphered by a contest.

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m0EM TIL when Jai Singh, Maharaja of a princely state of India, visited the Rolls-Royce showroom in London, he was affronted when the salesman implied that he couldn’t afford to purchase the car. He purchased ten, shipped them to India, and ordered to use them for collecting and transporting garbage.
R7Q4j TIL about the "Pilgrim Army", a group of 15000 crusaders who were blown off course to the holy land and made to stop in Portugal where the King convinced them to help defeat the Moors in return for anything they could plunder, the majority elected to retire in Lisbon afterward.
ADxXo TIL of the Talheim Death Pit, a mass grave dating to 5000BC, containing the remains of 34 bodies, bearing some of the earliest evidence of habitual warfare, including fatal adze, axe and arrow wounds to the back of the head. It has been suggested that this site represents an early form of genocide.
XElOP TIL that in 2006, Mattel's "Furryville" toyline drew ire from real life nurses for naming their duck nurse character "Nurse Quacktitioner", alleging a "medical quack". Despite Mattel pointing out that "ducks quack", the toy was eventually pulled.
KRME TIL the iconic promotional image of Willem Dafoe with his hands raised in anguish from movie “Platoon” was inspired by a real photo from the Vietnam War by Art Greenspon who traveled to Vietnam in his 20s to document the war