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TIL King Tut's knife was made from meteorite iron.

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p8g5N TIL the Gendarmerie of Haiti, the collaborationist police-force raised by the USA during its occupation of Haiti in the early 1900s, sent a rifle team of indigenous gendarmes to the 1924 Olympics. The team won the nation's first-ever Olympic medal, a bronze, in the team free rifle event.
yQWNV TIL African is extraordinarily genetically diverse. An Ethiopian person will likely have less in common genetically with a Sudanese person than they do with people from other continents.
vPmdj TIL that Ernesto Miranda, the man whose case led to the famous Miranda Rights, was convicted in a second trial for his crimes that excluded the now-illegal evidence. He was paroled after five years, and fatally stabbed four years later. His killer fled to Mexico and has never been found.
WkOwN TIL that during the 1960s, North Korea and China fought a number of border skirmishes over the Paektusan mountain
RKoa TIL there’s a village in India that exclusively produces bouncers and bodyguards for New Delhi nightclubs