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TIL the 14th century B.C.E. Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten’s name was so thoroughly erased from history for installing a new state religion that researchers didn’t rediscover his name until they found his tomb in 1907, over 3200 years later.

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ANoma TIL Scrabbles highest recorded single play score is 365 or 392 based on dictionary used. Its theorised the maximum single word play maybe worth up to 4046 points and the longest game recorded by Guinness was 153 hours, this won't be beaten as the publishers deemed duration records dangerous
e0mW4 TIL Carrie Fisher delivered a cow tongue inside a Tiffany box to a predatory producer who had assaulted her friend. She said, "The next delivery will be something of yours in a much smaller box!"
GY481 TIL that bats are one of the few animals that use a different tone of voice depending on which individual they're talking to.
woPXo TIL about a brief conflict known as the Football War or the 100-Hour War, between El Salvador and Honduras, in the FIFA World Cup, which erupted following a series of violent incidents during FIFA World Cup qualifiers between the two countries. This was an expected extension of the Cold War
EgKG0 TIL of the Higg's Bison, a hypothetical Bison species proposed based on unexpected gene sequences in ancient bones and supported by changes in cave painting depictions of bison.