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TIL King Tut's dagger was forged from a meteorite.

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a8rdo TIL the first email was sent in 1971, almost two decades before the World Wide Web existed
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vBe7 TIL: Freddie Mercury and Micheal Jackson were supposed to record three songs. Freddie was all good to go till Jackson decided to bring his pet Llama into the studio which pissed off everyone and those songs were never recorded.
B9WD TIL it was widely believed in the 17th and 18th centuries that man was powered by explosions, such that 23,000 times a day, a human breathed in air containing nitrous particles that, combined with the fire of the heart or the sparks of nerves, created the small explosions that moved the body.
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