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TIL the smell of fresh baked bread has been scientifically studied, discovering that the smell makes people more inclined to help each other

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mxlbv TIL that the collapse of the USSR can be traced back to Anna Walentynowics, who spoke out about her boss stealing a workers’ bonus fund, got fired, workers struck in support of her, that escalated into the Solidarity movement, which led to the fall of communism in Poland and eventually Europe.
NXdYe TIL the 4 Synoptic Gospel's were probably written 3-5 decades after Jesus death based on oral tradition w different versions and different facts printed each century, and the earliest know versions are not in agreement about the date of Jesus crucifixion (before or on Passover).
QNPk9 TIL That Richard Todd played Major John Howard, who lead the assault on 'Pegasus Bridge', in The Longest Day. Todd, a WW II veteran, participated in the actual battle and in one scene his character is relieved by another actor who is playing Todd himself.
gxPA TIL Cleopatra was a Macedonian Greek NOT Egyptian
M7LPm TIL of the novel "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century". Written in 1827, it is the first English story to feature a reanimated mummy. Notably, it is science fiction, not horror, taking place in the year 2126 with the Pharaoh Cheops returning and giving political and life advice to people.