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TIL Ford actually didn't invent the first combustion engine car. Benz Patent-Motorwagen did in 1886 almost 30 years before Ford releases the Model T.

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50R9 TIL that during Roman times, Egyptian mummies were sometimes accompanied with a realist portrait of the dead painted on wooden boards. About 900 of these portraits are known to exist.
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m1xbM TIL that the Rosetta Stone was discovered by 1 of Napoleon Bonaparte’s troops in 1799, during France’s invasion of Egypt
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