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TIL King Tut was mummified with an erection.

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gGJ9 TIL that C.S. Lewis, Aldous Huxley and John F. Kennedy all died on november 22, 1963.
YLNB TIL it takes 4 litres of water to make a 1 litre plastic water bottle
Vd7B TIL that it takes 450,000 terabytes to map a mouse’s brain with enough resolution to show all the connections between neurons. It would take 1.3 Billion terabytes to map a human brain to that resolution.
6E5A7 TIL When an earthquake hit Los Angeles in 1994 knocking out power to the entire city, many anxious residents called 911 to report seeing a strange “giant, silvery cloud” in the dark night sky. What they really saw – for the first time – was the Milky Way
J1Nok TIL that one of the the biggest source of microplastics released in the environment is paint, as 95% of modern paints are plastic-based.