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TIL researchers used AI to piece together ancient Babylonian tablets from cuneiform fragments.

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xVLG7 TIL That There Is A Man In Spain, Building A Cathedral By Hand Since 1961
9YWo6 TIL in 1638, Pope Urban VIII commissioned the song Miserere from Allegri based on Psalm 51 & forbade transcriptions from being made. In 1770, Mozart at age 14 copied it from memory under threat of excommunication. Word got back to the Pope, who summoned Mozart & awarded him a Papal Knighthood.
m1aOR The highly sought after "peke face" in Persian cats is actually midface hypoplasia so severe that it causes dimples and holes into the cat's skull and brain cavity.
v1alj TIL the last Wooly Mammoth died in 1650 BC on Wrangel Island. Around that time, Egypt's Middle Kingdom was coming to an end and Greeks (the precursors to the more well known Greek Empire) had just started to live in Mycenae.
M4bK TIL Ren Xiaofeng, a manager of The Agricultural Bank of China, stole $26,000 from the bank with the intention of buying lottery tickets, winning, and repaying the initial theft. Against the odds, it worked so he tried again with $6.7 million. He lost all but $95,000 and was sentenced to death.