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TIL of the 13 languages attested from before 1000BC, only two (Ancient Chinese and Mycenaean Greek) have descendants which continue to be spoken to this day

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8ep9P TIL that the “@“ sign, or asperand, has been around since the mid-1500s and is not a product of the Internet age, as some might think, let alone the 20th century.
7ryrb TIL that during WWII, in the Philippines, Rod Serling and his platoon were watching platoon member Melvin Levy deliver a comic monologue when a supply crate dropped from above and decapitated Levy. One version of the story has the two men posing for a picture when it happened.
OogZe TIL Lake Superior is larger than Rhode Island, Delaware, Connecticut, New Jersey, and New Hampshire combined.
rR11w TIL of a bus shelter on the isle of Unst, in Shetland. The bus shelter was to be removed, but a seven-year-old boy wrote a letter asking for it to stay, as he stored his bike there when he went to school. The bus stop is now decorated with a new theme yearly by local residents - anonymously.
DOZp TIL only 13% of Molly seized in NY contained MDMA. The synthetic formula mimics some of the effects but constantly changes to avoid regulation. Any time the gov’t bans a compound, the chemists simply alter the formula with no regard to the effect of its users, targeting 12-17 yr olds as guinea pigs.