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TIL: 1200 construction workers have died on-site since Qatar got the World Cup.

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JYwem TIL in 2010, a papyrus document featuring Cleopatra's handwriting went on display at Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute. The document refers to a tax break for a friend of her husband Mark Antony. Cleopatra signed it with a Greek word meaning "make it happen".
7VNZ TIL that Spielberg returned to college in 2002 to finish his film degree. When the assignment was to submit a sample of filmmaking proficiency, he submitted Schindler’s List
69Xj7 TIL that Queen Victoria considered Former President Millard Fillmore to be the handsomest man she'd ever met.
eag6 TIL NASA plans to capture and redirect an asteroid to orbit the moon. Astronauts will explore the asteroid and return to Earth with samples. This experience will help NASA test new systems & capabilities, such as solar electric propulsion, which will send cargo as part of human missions to Mars.
m1G8y TIL Grand Duchess Olga, oldest child of Czar Nicholas II of Russia, was a nurse in a military hospital during WW1