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TIL that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria posed as a mummy, for fun, in an early face-in-hole (=Photo stand in) tourist attraction in Cairo, 1894.

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xV9DD TIL About Setenil de las Bodegas, a Spanish city built under a large rock that hangs over it
poJO TIL The M.I.T Dean of Admissions lied about her credentials as a PhD for 28 years
rRPNx TIL Dong Chim, a prank translated as “poop needle” where you poke someone with your index fingers between their butt cheeks with as much force as possible, is so popular in South Korea that a town there decided a statue of children playing should depict the prank.
KYDJw TIL about The Cure for Insomnia, an experimental movie released in 1987 by a man named John Henry Timmis IV, that held the Guinness World Record for longest film at around 87 hours. It consists of an artist reading a 4,080 page poem, and there are believed to be no copies left.
a8pLZ TIL Marriage rates in the United States have declined 60% over the past 50 years