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TIL ancient Roman tourists would visit Egyptian tombs and write negative reviews in graffiti, like not enjoying anything but the sarcophagus and being unhappy they couldn't read the hieroglyphs. These would ironically end up becoming valuable historical records themselves.

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gM50b TIL that a dog in China refused to leave his dead owner’s grave. He even refused to leave after 7 days without food. When a man took him home and fed him, he quickly left and ran back to the grave. He had been his owners’ sole companion. The villagers planned to build a kennel for him.
jNrkj TIL the practice of Yoga is thousands of years old, but the physical exercise most associated with it today was introduced to India by the YMCA in the 1920s, and is based on Swedish and Danish gymnastics.
P1NRg TIL Judy Garland was very close with the dog who played Toto, even letting the pup stay at her house while healing from an on-set accident. She attempted to purchase Toto but the owner wouldn’t sell
kJj0g TIL that after the initial pitch for The Walking Dead was rejected for being too "normal", Robert Kirkman revised the pitch so that the zombie virus was caused by aliens to weaken humanity before an invasion. Kirkman had no intention of ever writing this into the comic, but this pitch was approved.
xd4k TIL that North Korean fighter pilot No Kum Sok flew his MiG-15 fighter jet to South Korea in 1953 and defected. He received $100,000, as promised by Operation Moolah.