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TIL: Clueless (film) is a modern re imagining of the Jane Austin Novel Emma

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p8Ld8 TIL a mummy of the daughter of Xerxes was put on display in The National Museum of Pakistan in 2000. A year later analysis of the mummy revealed the woman was murdered around 1996 and the case remains unsolved.
9bPm TIL Tilda Swinton comes from one of only three families that can trace their unbroken land ownership and lineage to before the Norman Conquest
DQBaj TIL that Alan Hale Jr. Was only 43 when he started playing "The Skipper" on Gilligan's Island.
MWem TIL that during the Great Depression women made clothes out of flour sacks and when manufacturers learned of this they started using patterned fabrics and designed the label to wash out.
vPdMj TIL a guy dressed as Santa Claus in 1927 caused the biggest manhunt ever in Texas by robbing a bank. AND there use to be a $5k reward for civilians at the time for shooting a bank robber dead which meant over 100 people turned up to shoot Santa.