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TIL that it was Napoleon’s army that discovered the Rosetta Stone. Which was the key to unlocking the code of Egyptian hieroglyphics, a language that had been dead for 2000 years.

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g517 TIL of the Peter Principle; anything that works will be used in progressively more challenging applications until it fails. Applied to a workplace, this means “every employee tends to rise to their level of incompetence”.
YAQr TIL the BBC ran a contest asking vacationers for pictures of French beaches prior to D-Day to help gather intelligence and determine whether the beach was suitable for an amphibious landing.
XEebP TIL that, although the ancient Greeks had a myth in which Prometheus is tied to a rock and his liver is eaten every day by an eagle, we did NOT actually learn about "liver regeneration" (the liver's remarkable ability to regenerate itself) until the 19th century.
awg8M TIL Bread in the US contains Potassium Bromate, a toxic chemical that is linked to Cancer. This chemical has been banned in most countries around the world, but the FDA refuses to investigate because they have "limited availability of resources and other agency priorities".
Y7MkB TIL that snakes can save us from Earthquakes!