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TIL that the oldest known writing in the world, Sumerian Cuneiform, is over 5000 years old and only 5-10% of all recovered tablets have been translated.

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jXZX TIL humans may have accidentally caused climate change once before– 11,000 years ago, by killing off woolly mammoths, which transformed North American grasslands into birch forests, which in turn burned so intensely that the climate in North America changed.
d8bAE TIL that on Queen Victoria's birthdays, Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria-Hungary would send her a bottle of Tokaji Aszú wine for every month she had lived to that point. For her 81st and final birthday he shipped her 972 bottles.
6ENpY TIL of Margaret Dickson, a woman who was hanged for the murder of her baby. She later woke up in her coffin and was given a full pardon, living till old age. To prevent that from repeating the sentence for hanging was officially changed to "hanged by the neck UNTIL DEAD", where it remains today.
DQ4ve TIL All shellac (78 rpm) and Vinyl (16, 33 and 45 rpm) records start their information from the outside, spinning to the inside. Every other form of spinning data records created since then (floppy discs, hard drives, LaserDiscs, CD, DVD) records from the inside to the outside.
xKZk TIL: All white tigers are the result of severe inbreeding. Most white tiger cubs are euthanized due to some type of deformity including eyes on the sides of their heads, deformed jaws and teeth, misshapen skeletal structure, mental disabilities, allergies, and weak immune systems