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TIL the last known writing in Egyptian Hieroglyphs is a piece of graffiti on a temple wall. Helpfully, the graffiti includes an exact date (Aug 24, 394 AD) and its author was likely the last person in the world able to read or write hieroglyphs until the Rosetta Stone was deciphered in the 1820s.

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a8LdL TIL in 2017, a couple and a un-housed man faked an online donation story about him giving his last $20 to help the woman in need. They raised $400K but spent it on a BMW, vacations, and luxury items. The scam unraveled when the man sued the couple for withholding money, exposing the hoax.
16B8P TIL that 30 years after cocaine was first isolated from the coca plant, it was first tested as an anesthetic. In 1884, Austrian ophthalmologist Karl Koller instilled a 2% solution of cocaine into his own eye and tested its effectiveness by pricking his eye with a needle.
9YxbQ TIL: Project Gutenberg, the world's largest digital library of over 57,000 free public domain ebooks. Contains wide variety of the most historically important literary works.
lo55V TIL that due to a copyright issue, George Romero's film Night of the Living Dead is in the public domain, and can be downloaded for free on the internet. It is currently the most downladed film on the Internet Archive, with 3.1 million downloads.
vPbL4 TIL that Enzo Ferrari chose not to get too close to his drivers, out of fear of emotionally hurting himself, after the death of Ferrari driver Alberto Ascari in 1955. Later in life, he relented his position and grew very close to Gilles Villeneuve, who would also die driving a Ferrari in 1982