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TIL there is a website dedicated to removing all characters except Jon from Garfield creating one of the most depressing comics of all time

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dD0Z8 TIL In the 1500s, a priest named Diego de Landa asked a Maya scribe to produce an alphabet of his language and write a sentence. The sentence the scribe wrote was "Ma’ in k’áati’" (I don't want to). The sentence was deciphered in the late 1900s as Maya writing is syllabic, not alphabetic.
x60j0 TIL the Roman Emperor Otho had been a close friend and confidant of Nero and restored his public image and that of their wife Poppea Sabina after he seized power, but personally was ambivalent about being hailed as “Nero Otho” by supporters.
awjeA TIL in 2016 Russia’s national air carrier Aeroflot directly linked the pay of its flight attendants to their dress size. This was defended as a “fuel saving” measure.
J1bx1 TIL there is a parasitic wasp, Hymenoepimecis argyraphaga, which injects venom into the orb weaver spider, causing it to weave a special web that protects the wasp's cocoon
VMJZZ TIL that North Korean "ghost ships" having been washing up on Japan's western coast usually containing dead bodies or skeletons on board.