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TIL When the French decided to dig up all the kings from Saint Denis in 1793, they found that the body of Henri IV was so well preserved that a someone took a piece of his moustache "as a memento". His head was reportedly moved and rediscovered multiple times since, last found in an attic in 2009

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b6YbE TIL Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler's work touched upon so many fields that he is often the earliest written reference on a given matter. In an effort to avoid naming everything after Euler, some discoveries and theorems are attributed to the first person to have proved them after Euler.
LQKR0 TIL Way back in 1872, Yungay in Peru was struck by an avalanche that nearly destroyed the town, the 1970 Huascarán Debris Avalanche disaster was of similar magnitude. This avalanche claimed 22,000 lives.
VBNy8 TIL the waving inflatable tube man was invented in 1996 for the Atlanta Olympics by Peter Minshall, he was influenced by Caribbean Carnival celebrations
x6axw TIL That Germany created a rifle with a curved barrel during World War II attached with a periscope to shoot around corners from a safe position.
8jab TIL that until 1999, the State of Montana didn’t have a speed limit on the interstate, and instead encouraged drivers to be “reasonable and prudent”