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TIL Oxford University is requesting the help of the general public to help and decipher 7 ancient languages.

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nWvlB TIL the singer of Peanut Butter Jelly Time committed suicide during an 11 hour police standoff, after his brother-in-law Snoop Dogg, tried to convince him to surrender.
W74RN TIL that, following WW2, a German engineering company - JA Topf & Sons - continued in business under different names until 1996. JA Topf & Sons designed and built gas chambers and crematoria ovens for Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau and other concentration camps.
XEJgj TIL Dubai is not actually dependent on oil revenue. They used their relatively limited reserves, found in 1966, to build infrastructure throughout the 70's and then transitioned their economy to real estate and construction (22.6%), trade (16%), ports (15%) and financial services (11%).
ZpJND TIL: Flexible Curves were once called Lesbian Rulers, not because they "weren't straight" but because they were invented in Lesbos, Greece.
JY5VB TIL Quentin Blake, probably best known for Roald Dahl illustrations, also illustrated books written by Dr. Seuss and William Steig