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TIL King Tut of Egypt was mummified with erect penis

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JVYB TIL the phrase “Snipe Hunt” and the word “sniper” both derive from the difficulty in hunting a small wading bird called a snipe.
R7LRa TIL The cover of Captain America's first issue showed Cap punching Hitler. Some readers took objection, and the publishers received threats and hate mail. The threats proved so serious that police protection was posted with Mayor La Guardia personally contacting Simon and Kirby to give his support.
DQ70v TIL I learned that the physicist Richard Feynman once spend an evening breaking spaghettis apart to study their breaking patterns.
KW5a TIL that the French word for wooden shoe, ‘sabot’ is the probable root of the word sabotage: and refers to the tactic by early Dutch unionists of throwing sabots into the gears of factory or farm machinery, effectively stopping work until the equipment could be repaired.
wxJ8 TIL that the English word “taboo” comes from the Polynesian word “tapu”, which means too sacred to touch and therefore off limits