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TIL that there is a 600 year old 240 paged book called the Voynich Manuscript, thats written language is still completely unknown today

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Mev47 TIL that the United States has produced nearly 19 times more serial killers than the runner-up nation
BQkk TIL at the 2009 Grammy’s Miley Cyrus requested a backstage meeting with the members of rock band Radiohead. Lead singer, Thom Yorke, politely declined. After being snubbed by the band, Miley vowed to get revenge. “I’m gonna ruin them, I’m gonna tell everyone.”
yQpPM TIL Yoda, of the Star Wars universe, uses sentences that follow the object-subject-verb pattern. This pattern is only found in 0.3% of the world’s languages. This is called anastrophe, in which the normal word order of the subject, the verb, and the object is changed.
WkXAL TIL when Mark, a Texan plumber, traded in his F150 in 2013, the dealership asked him not to remove the decals. Somehow the truck made it to the hands of Islamic militants, and Mark's truck with his decals appeared in propaganda videos. In one day, Mark received over 1000 calls and death threats.
WEl4 TIL NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building is so huge it needs 10,000 tons of AC equipment to prevent rain clouds from forming inside on humid days.