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TIL that King Tut’s penis was mummified while erect

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16r0O TIL Gaston is an original character created for Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991) he was inspired of screenwritter Linda Woolverton's ex-boyfriend.
KYWxa TIL that the inventor of lobotomy was awarded a Nobel Prize in medicine. Egas Moniz was also a duelist, medical school dean, member of parliament, ambassador and foreign minister. Once he was shot by a patient but survived. Moniz also authored many books, even one on the history of playing cards.
DQg7e TIL that the UK received 50% of the total funding given to Europe via the Marshall Plan in 1948, valued to 60 billion USD today.
R5Mnl TIL about the tiny isolated Pacific Island of Rotuma. It is 400 miles from the rest of Fiji and has its own linguistic heritage. About 1,600 people there.
v11gR TIL The Earth has enough Iron to make three new planets, each with the same mass as Mars