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TIL that Tutankhamun’s body is not in a museum, but has been returned to his tomb.

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D1Por TIL that there is an FAA regulation called the 'Sterile Cockpit Rule', requiring flight crews to abstain from discussing anything other than topics pertinent to the aircraft and the flight below 10,000 feet.
0D9p TIL Digger is a military slang term for soldiers from Australia and New Zealand used prominently during WWI. In a wider social context it is linked to the concept of “egalitarian mateship.”
GgGg TIL the French Resistance cut the elevator cables to the Eiffel Tower to keep Hitler from visiting it during his visit when Paris fell. When faced with the prospect of climbing over 1500 stairs he opted out.
WkmeN TIL about Project GUNMAN, the discovery of primitive keylogging technology installed by the KGB into the IBM Selectric typewriters used in the US Embassy in Moscow, enabling the Soviets to steal US secrets for eight years.
JbZ1 TIL that there is a disease that makes the body repair injuries using bone, over the course of many years, this leads to the victim becoming more and more like a statue.