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TIL Scientists can read ancient sealed documents and book without opening them

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R58p6 TIL Wrocław Poland has Hundreds of Little Brass Gnomes Throughout the City
BgX5L TIL that movement of the tides causes a loss of energy in the Earth-Moon system. In the last 620 million years the period of rotation of the Earth (length of a day) has increased from 21.9 hours to 24 hours; in this period the Earth-Moon system has lost 17% of its rotational energy.
XrZR TIL During his time as West Ham manager, Harry Redknapp once challenged a heckling supporter to go see if he could play better than the player he was insulting. The fan went on to score in the match.
QD6p TIL that the Gatling gun was invented by a doctor who noticed that the majority of soldiers died in the civil war due to diseases not gun shot wounds
d85ZZ TIL that Slavery in America started in 1619, when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.