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TIL King Tut's dagger was made from a meteorite.

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M7eZm TIL that Gandhara is a historical region in today's Pakistan that was a Buddhist crossroads. In ancient times that region was influenced by Persians and Greeks due to Alexander the Great, the Mauryas and Indo-Greek Kingdom and became an ancient center of Buddhism.
Z8ROD TIL that fun little bit of a cat's outer ear is called 'Henry's Pocket'
ND9E TIL except for the dutch all current european monarchs (Belgium, Denmark, Luxembourg, Norway, Spain, Sweden and the UK) are descendants of Queen Victoria and King Christian IX (Denmark). At the start of WW1 their grandchildren occupied the thrones of Germany, Russia, the UK and 5 other countries.
jNEaE TIL Tivadar Kosztka, an early twentieth century Hungarian painter, made an oddly asymmetrical artwork called The Old Fisherman. It was recently discovered that the painting contains two hidden images by mirroring just the left or the right side, which creates a symmetrical image of God or the Devil.
PDjn TIL in the Catholic sainthood process “the Devil’s advocate”, was a canon lawyer appointed to argue against the canonization of a candidate. They would take a skeptical view of the candidate’s character, look for holes in the evidence, and argue that attributed miracles were fraudulent.