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TIL Only five independent writing systems have been produced in the entire human history. Sumerian, Egyptian, Harappan, Mayan, and Chinese.

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nedg9 TIL since 1991 Russia has been involved in 12 wars
pOyG TIL that more Portuguese live in Luxembourg than Germans, Belgians and French combined
bel4 TIL that the “Green Flash” as seen in the Pirates of the Caribbean film is a real phenomenon.
PYjwJ TIL the famous B-17 Flying Fortress, The Memphis Belle, was the second heavy bomber in the Eighth Air Force to complete 25 combat missions in the European Theatre. In those missions, she flew 148 hours, dropped more than 60 tons of bombs & had every major part of the plane replaced at least once
OZk1 TIL that to prevent the Nazis from discovering two fellow scientist’s gold Nobel prizes, Niels Bohr had them dissolved in aqua regia. They were then stored on a shelf until after the war, when the gold was extracted and re-cast by the Nobel Foundation