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TIL The oldest-known message in a bottle was tossed overboard from a German ship in 1886 and found off the coast of Wedge Island, Australia earlier this year.

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9YZmX TIL about the Georgia Guidestones, a set of huge granite slabs in Elbert County, Georgia commissioned by anonymous benefactors. The 5 slabs contain messages in 12 languages, and are intended to help rebuild human civilization after a global catastrophe.
8aG1L TIL the fallacy fallacy is the formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false.
Y7VyA TIL Grand Theft Auto was influenced by Pac-man
oxXo TIL Some insect wings have developed textures which physically shred bacteria to pieces
0wObp TIL about Joe Ronnie Hooper who was one of the most decorated soldiers of Vietnam and whose Medal of Honor citation reads like an action movie