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TIL through the use of a mirror effect, hieroglyphs seemingly come to life.

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aJE0 TIL the longest wrongful conviction served was 35 years served by James Bain for a murder and rape he did not commit.
x6Am1 TIL during WW2, Finland fought alongside the Nazis vs. Russia before it was clear that balance of power was shifting
oRlr7 TIL of Deborah Sampson. She was a woman from Massachusetts who disguised herself as a man and served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. After her sex was revealed in 1783 she was honorably discharged at West Point.
W7w7d TIL in 1967, Australia's prime minister vanished by swimming in the ocean and never coming back. Australians fondly named a swimming pool in his honour.
e8Kk TIL that the reason so many traditional legal terms come in pairs (aid and abet, null and void, part and parcel, will and testament) is that old English courts used English terms along with Latin or French terms to avoid confusion.