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TIL that we don't write in image-describing hieroglyps, but with sound-describing letters, because egyptians required a written language which all their less educated slaves could still master.

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9v9M TIL Before the United States dropped the two atomic bombs on Japan, it showered 35 Japanese cities, including Nagasaki & Hiroshima, with over 5,000,000 leaflets warning Japanese civilians of the impending destruction. (link to leaflet in comments)
0wZd5 TIL before killing Cecil the lion Walter Palmer was penalized $2938 for illegally killing a black bear in Wisconsin in 2006 and he tried to bribe his guides $20000 to cover it up
DBVj TIL a Brazilian girl died due to a 12 minute orgasm.
6EVgX TIL That Paul Lieberstein, Actor of The Office’s Toby Flenderson, Pitched an Idea of an Office Spin-off titled “The Farm” that would star Rainn Wilson as Dwight Schrute in his Own Show about his Life and Beet Farm.
wPGM TIL: There is no evidence for the widely-held belief that the U.S. distributed smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. That notion came from one professor who fabricated his research.