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TIL M&M's were created for the US Army so that soldiers could carry chocolate in tropical climates without it melting

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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.
Y7Z5x TIL there are, as of 2011, 41,429 native speakers of Ladin, a Romance language mainly spoken in northern Italy’s Dolomite Mountains.
WlPB TIL there was such bad communication between the officers on the Titanic that the ship’s quartermaster, George Rowe, did not know the ship was sinking until he asked why he had seen lifeboats being lowered into the water
m1dOE TIL that Art Garfunkel has walked across Japan, United States and most of Europe completing over 10,000 miles.
rR8Nx TIL There was a romance novel about KFC, set in medieval England. It launched in 2017 for mothers day, and was called "Tender Wings of Desire".