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TIL Tutankhamun had a dagger made from meteorite

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4XXaa TIL that J.R.R Tolkien got the name for Samwise Gamgee from a doctor called Joseph Sampson Gamgee, the inventor of the 'Gamgee tissue', an absorbent gauze surgical dressing made from cotton wool. Hence, Tolkien named Samwise's wife in The Lord of the Rings books Rosie Cotton.
W7pN4 TIL that Alexander Hamilton's great-great-grandson, Pierpont Morgan Hamilton, was a veteran of both World Wars, and was awarded the Portuguese Order of Christ, the Order of the British Empire, the Legion of Merit, and the Medal of Honor during WW2, and was promoted a Major General after WW2.
Vvd0 TIL that Harvard has a pigment library where the sources of rare colors are stored. These sources include ground shells of now extinct insects, poisonious metals, and wrappings from Egyptian mummies.