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TIL that King Tut’s penis was mummified while erect

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J11E4 TIL The German police once managed to identify and arrest a serial-burglar by identifying and matching the ear-prints he left on doors when listening if anyone was home before breaking in
VM1Ak TIL Freddie Mercury used a piano as the headboard of his bed and would often play tunes that he had heard in his dreams . This was Bohemian Rhapsody began
nQrB Til that Matthew McConaughey replaced Owen Wilson in ‘Tropic Thunder’ after Wilson’s battle with depression and attempt at suicide by overdosing and slitting his wrists
PYZdg TIL that after an intense 8 artillery week barrage, British troops on the first day of the Battle of the Somme were so sure of their victory that 4 platoons had a competition to see who could kick a soccer ball into the German trenches first. Nearly 20,000 British men were killed that day
XEVRP TIL that the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics, Maria Goeppert Mayer, had to work without pay for most of her career, and was referred to as S.D mother in newspaper headlines when she won her Nobel.