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TIL that Mormon prophet Joseph Smith claimed to have transcribed The Book of Abraham from ancient Egyptian papyri, which experts later determined was actually common Egyptian funeral text.

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p8ygN TIL that the well-known 'ugly' blob fish (the one with the nose) only looks like that when they are pulled out from the high pressure environments such as deep beneath the oceans up to the surface. The pressure change results in tissue damage which makes the fish look like it's melting.
L8LP TIL that the writer of Peter Pan (J.M.Barrie) had a brother named David (his mother’s favorite) who died at the age of 12. Barrie’s mother found comfort in the fact that her dead son would remain a boy forever, never to grow up and leave her. This is why the children in his story do not grow old.
ygnp TIL that Roosevelt is on the dime because he helped create March of Dimes, the organization that was originally a campaign to fund polio research.
VMMEp TIL while on the run, Richard McNair, was staying at a motel and upon returning to his room he saw a SWAT team surrounding the building and decided to drive off, but later found out that the SWAT team was responding to a hostage situation, so he drove back and recorded the standoff with a camera.
NXvD8 TIL the Frozen Food Aisle was created as a result of Clarence Birdseye learning how to flash freeze fish from the Inuits in the 1920s