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TIL Tom and Jerry committed suicide

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gbg9 TIL August 24 is the anniversary of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and the devastation of Pompeii (79 A.D.). The city was buried under 14 to 17 feet of ash and pumice, and would not be rediscovered again until 1748.
vPv9x TIL An estimated 350,000 Chinese visited North Korean in 2019 and the demographic visiting Pyongyang are between the age of 45 to 60. Many Chinese tell their guides that it is just like how they used to live
gMk7X TIL the biblical tale of Moses was likely inspired by the Mesopotamian legend of Sargon of Akkad, which predates Exodus by over a millennia and also features a baby abandoned on a river who is raised in a palace and grows up to overthrow a king
xd8o TIL that to circumvent US laws banning the export of cryptography software as “ammunition”, PGP inventor Phill Zimmermann published the entire sourcecode in a hardcover book. The export of books is fully legal.
ArR4 TIL that Martin Scorsese’s film Hugo was inspired by a real event, wherein an automaton donated to Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute was restored to find that it could draw elaborate Illustrations and write poems.