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TIL: Reagan and Gorbachev Agreed to Pause the Cold War in Case of an Alien Invasion

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Z8M1Y TIL Pharoah Ramesses II was issued an Egyptian passport 3,197 years after his death in 1984 for transportation to France due to preservation issues with his profession listed as "King (Deceased)". He was greeted as a king with full military honors
xVRKg TIL Jimmy Carr suffered a huge backlash when he joked that servicemen amputees would give the UK a good Paralympic team in 2012. In fact, the UK, including many Vets, came 3rd in that year, winning 34 golds
X0PQP Today I learned that epigenetics can be used to predict sex across mammals at close to 100% accuracy. A notable exception are marmosets, and methods that work on other mammals can only predict marmoset sex accurately 66% of the time.
gJVW TIL of the Basque language: It isn’t in any language family and is completely distinct from any other language in the world
16pP8 TIL a film adaptation of the best-selling erotic romance novel "Gabriel’s Inferno" was directed Tosca Musk, sister of Elon.