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TIL Japan had machines that can type thousands of different letters using just one key

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9YaJB TIL that Herodotus, also known as “The Father of History”, was accused by a fellow historian, Thucydides, of making up stories for entertainment. Today, modern Historians and Archaeologists have confirmed most of what he wrote in “Histories”, to be factual.
woEaM TIL Waffle House cooks use a code written in food to remember an order that was yelled in.
womeE TIL that in Soviet-occupied Estonia, 1980's TV show Dallas became popular on modified TV's when it aired in Finland. Thousands of people would drive to the northern tip of Estonia just to watch the show.
9wy5X TIL that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria posed as a mummy, for fun, in an early face-in-hole (=Photo stand in) tourist attraction in Cairo, 1894.
VMOLZ TIL that all lakes in the state of Maryland are man-made