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

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R7W97 TIL about "Milk Sickness" which affects people who drink milk from a cow that has fed on white snakeroot plant. While rare today, it used to kill thousands of Midwestern migrants who were unfamiliar with it, including Abraham Lincoln's mother.
KOMl9 TIL one of Martin Luther King Jr's favorite hymns was Mahalia Jackson's rendition of 'How I got over." She sang it at the March on Washington in 1963 and in moments when he felt discouraged, he'd call her just to hear her sing.
QJeVp TIL: Coretta Scott King used to baby sit John Lithgow
MeBkB TIL Walmart is by far the largest employer in the United States, employing about 1.5 million Americans.
WkX6d TIL that in 1998 Sony had the chance to buy the rights to almost every Marvel character for 25 million. They opted to only buy the rights to Spider-Man for just 7 million, stating, "Nobody gives a shit about the other Marvel characters."