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TIL that Egyptian builders such as those of the pyramids were usually not slaves, and frequently took sick days from work. Popular excuses included “stung by scorpion”, “bleeding wife”, “trouble with eye”, and even “brewing beer”.

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eJeE TIL That Samsung has built a sentry gun which sits in the Demilitarised Zone between North and South Korea, which is hostile to anyone it senses who cannot provide an authorised access code
b9xmE TIL an Australian man typed every number from one to one million in words on his typewriter. It took him a total of 16 years to complete.
R1Q1 TIL that having zero recollection of your drive to work or school (autopilot), has a name. It’s called Highway Hypnosis.
oLEL TIL when the first horse was cloned, she was implanted with the clone embryo and later gave birth to a carbon-copy of herself.
p8LKN TIL about Tennis for Two, a 1958 video game played on an oscilloscope invented by a physicist at Brookhaven National Laboratory for a public exhibition. Largely forgotten until patent litigation in the 1970s, it was the first video game developed purely for entertainment.