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TIL although rarely used if at all, Ancient Persian Cuneiform has a block in Unicode. There's only a handful of surviving tablets in this script

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oRKYo TIL that Henry VIII kept an African grey parrot who amused itself by calling the boatman across the water to the palace, who was then paid for his efforts
OolnX TIL the reason some people get sick when they read in the car is because your ear and your eyes disagree about whether or not you're moving.
Brv7e TIL that Momofuku Ando, a national hero who is credited with helping to end Japan's post-war food shortage by inventing instant ramen, was born Taiwanese and didn't become a Japanese citizen until 1966
5YO0R TIL in 1976, the team studying a newly-identified virus in Africa didn't want to name it after the village where it was found, so they named it after the closest river they could see on a map, which was the Ebola River.
kOKrB TIL Ronald Reagan was an announcer for the Chicago Cubs in the 1930s until he landed a 7-year movie contract after taking a screen test while traveling with the Cubs in California in 1937