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TIL Montezuma's Headdress/Crown still exists and is in Vienna.

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grwWL TIL Sir Nils Olav III is a scottish penguin with rank of Major General in the Norwegian Army, recognised by Guinness World Records as the highest-ranking penguin, he is also the Baron of the Remote Bouvet Island
xGN7 TIL the Greek physician Hippocrates thought that a malignant tumour surrounded by swollen blood vessels reminded him of a crab in sand calling the mass karkinos, the Greek word for crab, hence the origin of the name cancer.
jNokv TIL about Coxey's Army. It was the first popular protest march on Washington. Composed of unemployed workers from the United States, the protesters petitioned for government jobs in 1894, the second year of a four-year economic depression that was the worst in United States history to that time.
Lkgkm TIL camouflage does not work on color-blind people and for this reason some were picked as snipers
4X6rg TIL Lego Universe, the Lego MMO that was cancelled in 2012 was likely cancelled due to the cost associated with detecting penises