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TIL the Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, and possibly Indian alphabets are all derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs via the Phoenician alphabet.

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5yjP TIL that in 2013 alone more than 1,000 park rangers died trying to save African elephants from poachers.
P1lg TIL that female koalas, when in captivity, often engage in lesbian orgies
J16YQ TIL the first Super Bowl halftime show featured jetpacks flying around the stadium, but were originally developed for military use by Bell Aerosystems and funded by the US Army.
6EYAW TIL Fireflies are the most efficient lights in the world. 100% of energy is emitted as light. Fireflies: larvae & eggs glow, talk to each other with light, imitate each other, then eat other fireflies, are on almost every continent, taste bad, are medically and scientifically useful, adults live<1mo
bZAa TIL that a woman who disappeared in 1937 was found floating in a lake 3 years later, and her body had turned into soap.