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TIL Dolly Parton wrote "Jolene" and "I will always love you" in the same night

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wLGAM TIL ancient Egyptians didn't use Hieroglyphics as an everyday writing system. They reserved this for special functions. The Egyptians used two script-like writing systems called Hieratic and Demotic. This eventually became Coptic script.
K1BR TIL the US were working on a nuclear cruise missile capable of staying multiple YEARS in the air by pushing air through an open nuclear reactor, heating said air, meanwhile spewing radioactivity everywhere, they even had a working engine, but they abandoned it, deeming it too provocative.
KY8Z4 TIL that the 7ft 2in actor who played the Predator and Harry, from Harry and the Henderson’s died from AIDS because of a HIV infected blood transfusion he received from a car accident.
d87kK TIL (realized) that Snoop Dogg got his name from Snoopy the dog
BaBd TIL the oldest know adhesive, dated back to 200,000 BC, is from cave man semen