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Copiale cipher - Manuscript that remain undeciphered for more than 260 years before being cracked in 2011 and revealed to be about an early German Masonic ritual ( en.wikipedia.org )

Lake Nyos disaster - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )

List of unexplained sounds - Wikipedia ( en.wikipedia.org )

Nine familial exterminations - An extreme form of capital punishment in Premodern China, by which the criminal's entire family was killed along with him ( en.wikipedia.org )

Green Boots - a name given to the unidentified body of a climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest. ( en.wikipedia.org )

Green Boots is the name given to the unidentified body of a climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest. The body has not been officially identified, but he is believed to be Tsewang Paljor, an Indian climber who died on Everest in 1996. The term Green Boots originated from the green Koflach...

Unit 731 - Secret Japanese project that carried out human medical experiments during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II ( en.wikipedia.org )

Kai Tak Airport - Major international airport closed in 1998 where planes literally almost crashed constantly due to right-hand turn over the city ( en.wikipedia.org )

hitchBOT - Hitchhiking robot that relied on human kindness that was decapitated, dismembered, and discarded in Philadelphia ( en.wikipedia.org )

Krzywy Domek - Unusually shaped building in Poland that mimics the visual effect of a funhouse mirror ( en.wikipedia.org )

Phaistos Disc - a clay disc with indecipherable inscriptions ( en.wikipedia.org )

TIL During the shooting event of the 1965 World Pentathlon Championships, Herbert Polzhuber drank 10 glasses of beer and a bottle of cognac, stepped onto the shooting platform, shot all his bullets... ( en.wikipedia.org )

Review: Gravity Falls (western animation) ( en.wikipedia.org )

Title: Gravity Falls...

2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Names ( en.wikipedia.org )

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2024 Atlantic Hurricane Season Names ( en.wikipedia.org )

The following list of names will be used for named storms that form in the North Atlantic in 2024. This is the same list used in the 2018 season, with the exceptions of Francine and Milton, which replaced Florence and Michael, respectively....

TIL about the concept of Weaponized Incompetence, a psychological concept wherein you strategically fail to perform something you don't actually want to do ( en.wikipedia.org )

This is illustrated by getting elected on a platform of erasing student loan debt and then pretending that you can't do anything about it, or claiming to be against genocide and drawing out or never performing the process of pulling financial and political support for an ally who's committing genocide.