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TIL That archaeologists in Egypt discovered a 3,000-year-old prosthetic big toe fitted to the remains of a noble woman. Made from leather and wood, it was refitted several times to exactly match the woman’s foot.

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9LVG TIL that Lions used to be the world’s second most widespread land mammal, ranging from western Europe to India and in the Americas from Peru to the Yukon
R5vm9 TIL of Robert Lewandowski, a Polish soccer player who substituted into a Bundesliga game, and within less than 9 minutes scored 5 goals, smashing 4 Guinness records in the process
j6PM TIL: In the Grimm version of Snow White, the evil queen dies by being forced to wear red-hot iron shoes at Snow White’s wedding party
NXaJ TIL that the first European to describe the circulatory system was burned at the stake for heresy with his own books as the fuel.
wL4jJ TIL there are rocks in California that are highly-polished from the suspected rubbing extinct Columbian Mammoths performed on them 1,000s of years ago during the Ice Age.