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TIL that the bodies of six ancient Iranian salt miners were recovered in a such a good state of preservation that food was found in their stomach

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PYnkL TIL about Ans van Dijk, a Jewish Dutch woman who was the only woman executed after WWII in the Netherlands. She was found guilty of treason by working for the nazis and betraying the hiding places of at least 145 other Jewish people including her own brother.
M747m TIL the U.S. Navy had a warship called the USS Gyatt. Commissioned in 1945, the ship was named after Edward Earl Gyatt, a Marine Corps private who died in battle in 1942.
0wAAj TIL the tomb of Louis XIV of France was ransacked during the French Revolution. By 1848, part of his mummified heart had fallen into the possession of the Archbishop of York. He showed it to the Dean of Westminster, who proceeded to eat it.
gLwy TIL in 1969 Bill Cosby won a man of the year award and jokingly suggested re-naming the award “the nice guy as far as we know” award
AD06o TIL Brendan Fraser pays $900,000 a year in alimony to his ex-wife Afton Smith. They got separated in 2008…