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TIL that museum workers, moving the mask of Tutankhamun detached the beard and have sticked it back off-center with quick-drying epoxy.

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lokAa TIL researchers have been working for years to develop a strain of coffee plant which is naturally decaffeinated. While they made progress, there's a big drawback. Caffeine functions as a natural insecticide. By removing it from the plant, you leave the crop more vulnerable.
NkKJ TIL that there is a penguin in Japan named LaLa who has his own air conditioned room, wears a backpack and walks freely to the fish market.
M74v8 TIL 3 men escaped Alcatraz in a raft made of raincoats. The FBI never found them.
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