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Charlie 5 month s ago
#7 - that's simply because there are so many. Cuneiform was used to write several different ancient languages, all of which are known. There are 10s of thousands of tablets waiting to be translated due to a lack of labor, not knowledge.
"Jumbo the elephant was not named such because of his size. Instead, Jumbo the word, meaning exceptionally large, was only introduced into the english language because of Jumbo the elephant. He was so big and so well known that his name became synonymous with size."
"30 scientists and staff of the Pavlovsk Experimental Station starved to death guarding the institute's edible seeds and plants during the siege of Leningrad."