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TIL There's a statue in front of the HQ of the CIA with four encrypted messages and its fourth message remains undeciphered. It's, in fact, one of the biggest mysteries in the world of cryptography.

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LkjAm TIL the name of the Japanese drink Ramune is derived from the loanword "lemonade"
kYpm TIL that the “sex” in names like Middlesex, Sussex, and Sexsmith comes from the Old English word “seax,” meaning “knife”
JYvyB TIL that chlamidial cells are strange organisms closely related to blue-green algae that have DNA like bacteria but can only reproduce parasitically in foreign cells like a virus.
Eb80 TIL there is another country inside Rome besides the Vatican. It has 3 inhabitants.
E1DaP TIL That in the original Pacman, it was impossible to beat the game due to a bug that would occur on level 256 from a buffer overflow.