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TIL that introverts produce more saliva than extroverts

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PYZxg TIL Roughly four thousand years ago an Ancient Egyptian official, Baqet III, had depictions of jugglers engraved within his tomb.
78GMZ TIL actress (Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, Attack of the Giant Leeches) and Playboy centerfold (July 1959) Yvette Vickers died alone at home in 2010 and her mummified body was found by a neighbor in 2011.
y16X TIL that, despite his wealth, King Farouk of Egypt (1920-65) was a kleptomaniac, going so far as to steal a pocket watch from Winston Churchill. Once, having suffered a nightmare in which he was chased by an angry lion, he went to Cairo Zoo and shot all the lions in their cages.
5YNKQ TIL Victor Hugo had a political career where, among other things, he advocated for universal suffrage and free education for all children.
XEwyr TIL of Jeremiah Horrocks who died 23 years old, was the only person to predict the transit of Venus in front of the sun in 1639, and one of only two people in the world to witness it, ...the first two ever, and likely the first in 600+ years.