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

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xV5Xw TIL Rory McCann ('The Hound', Game of Thrones) was incredibly anti-social until he learned that fellow actors in the show's group, the 'Brotherhood Without Banners' (Thoros, Lord Beric) were musicians, and formed a band called 'Brotherhood Without Banjos' with them.
n5RG TIL there’s a giant underground cavern in Japan filled with distilled water and light sensors, used to detect subatomic particles called neutrinos.
9YE8X TIL The 13th Vice President of the United States, William R. King, and the 15th President of the United States, James Buchanan, were most likely romantic partners and lived together for 13 years.
LXNv TIL: The pollution in China reaches Los Angeles, California, USA.
Q58d TIL that 18th century Prussian king Frederick William I was obsessed with having soldiers over 6 foot tall. He paid families for tall children, kidnapped tall men, bred them by pairing up his soldiers with tall women, and even stretched them on a rack to make them taller.