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TIL printers print nearly invisible codes on your documents which contain information like the date and time it was printed and the printers serialnumber. And some engineers outsmarted this.

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x61o1 TIL that famous Egyptologist Howard Carter's gravestone has a quote from the Wishing Cup of Tutankhamun, an artifact that he discovered. It reads "May your spirit live, may you spend millions of years, you who love Thebes, sitting with your face to the north wind, your eyes beholding happiness."
YBp7 TIL- In 1980 Saddam Hussein was given the key to the city of Detroit
nvRd TIL a man killed himself to prove that the afterlife existed. The spiritualist who was waiting to hear from him in the afterlife never did.
4JN6 TIL: In 1978, Pop Rocks candy was bootlegged on the streets of NYC and an overheated load of Pop Rocks blew the doors open on a delivery truck
9YxOD TIL that in 193 AD, Rome's elite Praetorian Guard murdered the sitting Emperor and then auctioned off the role to the highest bidder.