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TIL that Half of European men share King Tut's DNA

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9YgJD TIL Hard pretzels were invented in the late 1600s, when a snoozing apprentice in a Pennsylvania bakery accidentally overbaked his pretzels, creating crunchy, seemingly inedible, knots. His job was spared when the master baker, attempting admonishment, took an angry bite out of one--and loved it.
aABZ TIL the 5 permanent members of the UN Security Council account for 67% of all global arms exports
epeZg TIL that George Washington only left the present-day United States one time in his life, when he traveled to Barbados with his brother in 1751.
jNPVR TIL William Faulkner refused a dinner invitation from the White House because he thought it was "a long way to go just to eat."
BgL5e TIL that Gene Kelly was sick while filming the iconic scene from “Singin’ in the rain”.