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TIL that there are only six people left on the planet who can still ‘speak’ the whistled language known as sfyria

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DJdj TIL of “hitchBOT”, a hitchhiking robot created as a social experiment and designed to be a robotic travelling companion. It successfully hitchhiked across Canada in 2014, but met its demise in 2015 while attempting to cross the United States, as the robot was decapitated & vandalized in Philadelphia
R75N8 TIL there are streets in Paris named after each of Napoleon's Marshals of the Empire, his most trusted and skilled commanders. Of the 26 men who served as Marshals, only seven do not have streets named after them. These seven are widely regarded to be traitors to Napoleon, the Republic, and France.
N0ZM TIL: A Japanese customs officer planted marijuana in a traveller’s suitcase, forgot who it was and the sniffer dogs missed it
ADl7n TIL Mindscape, The Game Dev company that developed Lego Island, fired their Dev team the day before release, so that they wouldn't have to pay them bonuses.
Me5N0 TIL that Naspers, a South African company that "formed an integral part of the power structure which implemented and maintained apartheid", today has a 31% stake in Tencent, making it Tencent's largest shareholder