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TIL there are several ancient languages from our own species that modern linguists haven’t been able to decipher

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Z8ge4 TIL that in 1968, the US army accidentally killed 6,000 sheep on ranch land north of its biological and chemical weapons testing facility known as the Dugway Proving Ground. The Skull Valley Sheep Kill - as it came to be known, was caused by the open air testing of a highly toxic nerve agent "VX".
a8wA9 TIL about the "Pilate Stone," a damaged block of carved limestone with a partially intact inscription mentioning Pontius Pilate, a prefect of the Roman province of Judea from AD 26 to 36.
R7Wa9 TIL a Harvard study found that hiring one highly productive ‘toxic worker’ does more damage to a company’s bottom line than employing several less productive, but more cooperative, workers.
WOAX TIL that two identical twins were adopted by separate families, but both were called Jim, married women named Linda, got divorced and married women named Betty, both named their dogs Toy, and much more.
GAyeg TIL former NBA Star Dwight Howard Ate 5,500 Calories in Candy Every Day for a Decade. Howard was consuming the amount of sugar equivalent to 24 chocolate bars every day.