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TIL there were so many mummified cats excavated in Egypt that 19 tons of them were shipped to England to be used as fertilizer

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yQ6L8 TIL that one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's servants took an axe and killed several members of his family.
QlDk TIL that when John Glenn circled the Earth thrice in 1962, he received a card from the International Flat Earth Society containing the message: ‘OK, wise guy.’
gMEXW TIL that in the late 19th and early 20th centuries telephone companies used existing barbed wire fences to transmit electrical phone signals to rural areas to save money due to the price of phone lines.
OovPL TIL: despite being an 11-time all-star, Olympic Dream Team member, and double hall of fame inductee, Charles Barkley rejected the idea of athletes as role models for youth, saying "A million guys can dunk a basketball in jail. Should they be role models?"
VQRB TIL: That the odor you smell before it rains is ozone pulled from higher altitudes by the coming storm’s downdrafts.