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TIL of japanese nose tombs that contain up to 20 thousand pickled noses taken from dead Koreans 400 years ago as war trophies

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R7Mej TIL of a religious cult known as the "Prince Philip Movement", located on the island of Tanna in Vanuatu. It's followers worship Prince Philip and believe that he is a divine being.
kJoB7 TIL of Emory Andrew Tate Jr, a black American chess Master, once described as “a trailblazer for African-American chess”. He is also the father of Andrew Tate.
b9M1E TIL Tongan custom dictates that one should not imitate the actions of persons one is honoring, so at Elisabeth II's coronation; the Queen of Tonga rode her carriage in the pouring rain refusing to pull the hood up as Elisabeth did.
X0ppP TIL the Mechanical Turk was a chess playing machine from 1770 that seemed to be able to compete against a human chess player like artificial intelligence. Except that it simply hid another human player within itself.
6Ek9X TIL: That in 2003 April the Tomb of Gilgamesh was supposedly found.