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TIL that the Rosetta Stone, the key to deciphering Ancient Egyptian, was found in 1799 during the French military expedition to Egypt, by a French Army engineer captain named Pierre-Francois Bouchard. Bouchard had been part of a unit tasked with restoring an old fort, where he spotted the slab.

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ANN9w TIL That an ancient Greek explorer named Pytheas of Massalia traveled from Greece to the arctic circle in the 4th century BC
exen TIL that Ben & Jerry’s sends all of their ice cream waste to local farmers to be used as pig feed. The pigs love the ice cream, but they refuse to eat one flavor. Mint Oreo.
b6Dw7 TIL that the word "shrapnel" comes from Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel, inventor of the first Shrapnel shell, whose name eventually came to be associated with the metal fragments his creation produced.
jNMLQ TIL that from 1860 to 1916 the British Army required every soldier to have a mustache
Oo9Ra TIL that the U.S. icon "Uncle Sam" was based on Samuel Wilson; a meat inspector during the War of 1812.