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TIL many of the accient Greek and Roman statues were painted

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1ko7 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.
Bgore TIL during World War Two, the Taraxacum kok-saghyz, rubber-producing dandelions, were used in the Soviet Union, the United States, the UK, Germany, Sweden and Spain as substitute for Hevea brasiliensis
r7Re TIL of “Montreal’s Night of Terror”, a sort of real-life Purge with bank robberies and looting, as the Montreal police went on a 16 hour strike.
lkxV TIL that Patrick Stewart once said that, “All of those years in Royal Shakespeare Company – playing all those kings, emperors, princes and tragic heroes – were nothing but preparation for sitting in the captain’s chair of the Enterprise.”
Z8Wbo TIL the second biggest city in Greece accidentally discovers “yet another” archeological site every time they try to complete building the metro station.