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TIL that from the 12th century, Europeans were eating Egyptian mummies as medicine

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JY8bj TIL the nursery rhyme "Mary had a Little Lamb" was written about a real girl named Mary Sawyer. She lived in Boston and her lamb followed her to school one day in 1816 when she was 10-years-old.
4yog TIL that while humans possess three types of color receptor cones in their eyes, a Mantis Shrimp carries sixteen color receptive cones giving them the ability to recognize colors that are unimaginable by other species.
6EBbl TIL with a 7 bil almond industry in Central California, almond farmers pay up to $350 a beehive to keepers for pollination services. This creates a wave of beehive theft. More than 500 beehives went missing so far this year in this region.
NxjQ TIL Destiny will be the most expensive video game ever made, costing an estimated half-billion dollars to produce, nearly twice the cost of the previous record holder, GTAV.
J1AB8 TIL Roald Dahl attributed his creativity to a head injury he sustained after crashing his plane during WW2.