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TIL that the beard of Tutankhamun’s golden mask fell off during the cleaning process in the Egyptian Museum in 2014. The workers used epoxy glue to reattach the beard, but since that was not the professional method and permanent damage was done to the mask they were prosecuted for this in 2016.

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9EEB TIL that having children in your early 20s was a US cultural norm only for baby boomers, and that earlier in the 20th-century eugenicists had warned against it
GY06E TIL about Trasmoz, a town in Spain that was excommunicated for witchcraft in the 13th century, with Pope Julius II also cursing the village in 1511. Neither the excommunication or curse have been lifted. Every June, during the Feria de Brujeria festival, one person is named as 'Witch of the Year'.
oRddW TIL that in Nazi-occupied Netherlands, you could not be a Catholic AND a Nazi. The same month the Nazis invaded, the Dutch Catholic bishops excommunicated all their Nazis.
KNZ4 TIL that Benjamin Franklin was not trusted to draft the Declaration of Independence for fear that he might conceal a joke in it.
pZrN TIL That then retired General Smedley Butler (author of “War is a Racket”) was approached by “moneyed interests” from Wall Street with a plot to overthrow FDR. He took the info to Congress, they agreed there was a plot, didn’t do anything about it.