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TIL about rongorongo, a writing system created by the Rapa Nui of Easter Island. No living Rapa Nui understands it and it will likely never be deciphered.

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woKY8 TIL Nazi General Loringhoven was inside the Führerbunker during the last days of Nazi Germany. He attempted to escape, was captured by Allied forces, and later became a NATO commander, retiring as Inspector General of the Armed Forces of West Germany in 1973.
pOO4 TIL: A british university actually funded a study that tested the theory that given a typewriter and enough time, a group of monkeys would recreate Shakespeare. The monkeys repeatedly deficated/urinated on the typewriter and were unsuccesful in typing more than one letter.
8eQWP TIL that text messages have been sent electrically since at least 1774 when George-Louis LeSage sent static charges between two rooms in his house via 26 wires, one for each letter of the alphabet.
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