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TIL: The oldest mummies in the world are turning into black slime. Over 100 Chinchorro mummies found near the Atacama Desert in Chile are turning gelatinous due to bacterial growth associated with increasing humidity. The mummies date to ~5000 BC

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yVoWJ TIL in 1941, the Japanese Government elected in 1937 passed a law extending the term of the Representatives from four years to five, extending their own term to 1942. During that one extra year, they attacked Pearl Harbor.
N7MYJ TIL Typhoid Mary refused to cooperate with investigators, even refusing an offer of royalties on a book about the outbreak. She was arrested in 1908, claiming ignorance about hand washing. After release she went back into work as a cook, against orders, starting another outbreak that killed 2.
X0D6E TIL: Dogs don't have digestive enzymes in their saliva, nor can they chew side to side. Their jaws only allow for up-and-down movement because their diet doesn’t need as much chewing as ours does.
Br0Eb TIL that usually when the first trailer of a movie drops, all the visual effects are pretty much the only effects that have been completed up until that point.
lwQ7 TIL the phrase “Let them eat cake” has no record of being said by Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. It was used in Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s autobiography, which was written when Antoinette was 9 years old.