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TIL That Egyptians had two types of writing, not just hieroglyphics.

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XEWbX TIL Studies of people who have experienced 'clinical death,' but were revived, found a common theme of a "Near Death Experience." Research has suggested that the hallucinogen DMT models this NDE very similarly, suggesting that a DMT experience is like unto the final moments of an individuals life.
YXDZ TIL A 15-year-old liver transplant patient is the first person in the world to take on the immune system and blood type of her donor.
e0X04 TIL that in 2014, a Nigerian motorcyclist discovered what is now known as the Ibadan Forest of Horror - a site where 20 decomposing human remains and hundreds of human skulls were uncovered, in what is believed to have been ritualistic killings. 20 people were found alive.
Bllk TIL The Guinness Book of World Records Holds the Record for Being the Book Most Often Stolen from Public Libraries
v1J1K TIL Shakespeare didn't write alone - he had a co-writer for at least three of his plays ( Henry VIII, The Two Noble Kinsmen and a lost play called Cardenio)