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TIL Toilet paper was invented in China

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vPPBD TIL of Mary Jane Seacole, a British -Jamaican nurse and businesswoman who set up the "British Hotel" behind the lines during the Crimean War arguably practicing nursing hygiene before Florence Nightingale
gQoD TIL there is a super rare blood type called RH Null that only around 10-40 people in the world have.
vPK6B TIL that the oldest named person in history is believed to be Kushim - an accountant dealing with barley sales and living in ancient Sumer (modern day south-central Iraq) in around 3400 - 3000 BCE. At this time, writing was only used for essential record keeping.
wLLP1 TIL that King Tutankhamen's Tomb May Have Hidden Spaces Containing Organic, Metallic Materials
78G9P TIL that the “myth of the clean Wehrmacht,” the notion that the regular German army wasn’t involved in Nazi war crimes, was promoted by US leadership to facilitate German rearmament amid Cold War tensions.