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TIL Russia has a monument dedicated to lab rats
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TIL that the first known vending machine was created in ancient Egypt by Hero of Alexandria and dispensed holy water after inserting a coin.
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TIL That when the mummy of Ramses II was sent to France in the mid-1970s, it was actually issued a legal Egyptian passport. Ramses’ occupation? “King (deceased).”
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TIL there is a rare disorder called uncombable hair syndrome caused by a genetic mutation that changes the hair shape from cylindrical to triangular
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TIL of the Kalash people, a white-skinned, blue-eyed tribe in the back country of Pakistan, who claim to be descendants of the ancient Greeks.
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TIL ‘old person smell’ is actually caused by the chemical 2-nonenal. Older people secrete this chemical through their skin at a much higher rate than younger people.