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TIL that Tutankhamun’s successors tried to erase his name from history. This meant his memory was preserved as the location of his tomb was forgotten, hiding it from robbers. It remained virtually untouched for thousands of years until its discovery in 1922.

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b6oe4 TIL about the USS Constellation, a sloop-of-war that was the last sail-only warship designed and built by the United States Navy. The ship was built at the Gosport Shipyard between 1853 and 1855 and was named for the earlier frigate of the same name that had been broken up in 1853.
E1ado TIL that musicians formed the Music Defense League in 1930 to fight against movies with sound. They worried that without people playing music live at the movies, like in the silent era, they would lose jobs so they ran an expensive campaign arguing about how robots were taking over the world.
ZoQG TIL Mark Twain predicted his own death in 1909 “I came in with Halley’s Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it.” He died in 1910, a day after the comet returned.
Z86ea TIL that the "McDonald's hot coffee" case was not actually a woman being greedy. She suffered third degree burns from coffee served above 180 Fahrenheit, hot enough to fuse the skin on her lap when spilled. McDonald's knew that it was dangerously hot for more than 10 years, and warned no customers.
9dDG TIL Péter Zwack, escaped the Communists in 1948, was granted US entry just because he had the Zwack recipe for Unicum, the National Shot of Hungary. After 40 yrs went back, bought the factory from the State, became Hungarian Ambassador to the US. The State owned factory had been using a fake recipe.