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TIL Bill Nye has gotten three honorary Doctorate Degrees, for being Bill Nye.

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KOdaG TIL that in 2003 the Bolton Museum in England purchased a statue of the granddaughter of King Tutankhamun for £440,000. In 2006 they discovered it was a forgery
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