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TIL that the Latin script derived from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

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mxGpO TIL The U.S Approved a Plan to Build the Nation’s Largest Solar Project in the Desert by 2022
jeQp TIL the word “Armageddon” comes from the Hebrew “Har Megiddo” meaning “Mount of Megiddo” and referring to the place where the Book of Revelation claims the end of the world will begin.
vPBNj TIL about an illustrious Royal Navy ship name, passed down through four ships for one hundred and thirty five years, but for some unknown reason never used again after 1947. I present to you the history of the ‘HMS Cockchafer’
RaRQ TIL People with little or no skill suffer from a false feeling of superiority, this “Dunning-Kruger effect” was originally noted by Charles Darwin and its modern proponents won a Nobel prize for its documentation.
g6k7 TIL that a man once rescued a newborn baby from a dumpster, only to find out the baby was his.