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>There is a distinct Germanic language spoken today by 20 people in Poland called Wymysorys, not intelligible with any dialect of German language and with its own unique literary history
>There is a pictographic script called "Ersu Shaba script" where picto-glyphs are drawn in a picture frame and read clockwise from the center. The different colors of glyphs also change their meaning. Only about a dozen priests of the Ersu people, in Southwestern China, can now read and write this script.
>Sheng Shicai, the quasi-independent leader of Chinese Xinjiang, signed a secret agreement with Stalin in 1940, handing full military control of the entire province to the USSR. He also offered to make Xinjiang the 18th Soviet Republic of the USSR in 1941, but the offer was declined by Stalin.
>Tamerlane's 14th century tomb was opened by Soviet archaeologists just three days before the Nazi invasion of the USSR began. An inscription was revealed on the inside of the tomb that said, "whoever opens this tomb will unleash an invader more terrible than I."