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TIL About Victual Mummies- the Ancient Egyptians mummified various animals and foods to feed their ancestors in the afterlife.

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awQDo TIL that Charles goodyear, the man who invented the tyre (by accident) went a little rubber crazy and obsessed, to the point he started wearing clothes made of rubber and eating off rubber dishes. He sold almost every belonging he had and replaced it with a tyre equivalent
KypB TIL that after winning the Tour de France in 2006 Oscar Pereiro announced his real dream was to play professional soccer. He would quit cycling, join a Spanish team, and score twice in his first season.
rReo0 TIL A toilet was used as an aerial bomb during the Vietnam War
RKGl TIL during pre-Civil War America, when free, blacks disproportionately became slave masters. About 28 percent of free blacks owned slaves—as opposed to less than 4.8 percent of southern whites, and dramatically more than the 1.4 percent of all white Americans who owned slaves.
oRmrY TIL Grimace from McDonald's is an enormous taste bud