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TIL the tomb of Louis XIV of France was ransacked during the French Revolution. By 1848, part of his mummified heart had fallen into the possession of the Archbishop of York. He showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who proceeded to eat it.

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e0JNb TIL the Levi Straus was not the inventor of Denim jeans but partnered with Jacob Davis after Davis approached him to fund the patent. Jacob Davis devised the riveting of the pants independent of Straus and also came up with the double orange threaded stitch design.
RX9Q TIL that NASA does not have an official protocol for what to do with an astronaut’s body if one were to die in space.
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