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TIL that amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann named his son Agamemnon in honour of an Ancient Greek funerary mask he discovered in 1876, which he erroneously claimed belonged to the legendary king of the same name.

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KYVY4 TIL that NAFLD non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is now called MASLD. Stands for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease. Affects more than 30% of the population globally and rising. Key risk for heart disease. Main cause is insulin resistance. Weight loss of 5-7% can reduce it.
b9vwN TIL the Department of Homeland Security ran a experiment to see if government employees and contractors would use CDs and USB drives they secretly dropped in parking lots where they worked. 60 percent of the time they did, with that figure jumping to 90 percent when an official logo was visible.
kmOE TIL the Michelangelo’s ‘David’ was made from a single, 6 ton piece of marble that was twice discarded by other sculptors. Also, he is left-handed…
yVMO8 TIL that long before the Clampett family took that title, there was a country/western/bluegrass group in the 1930s called The Beverly Hill Billie's. Some of their recordings are on YouTube.
lnLG TIL that there is a big problem of elephant alcoholism in India and that substance abuse is not unique to humans.