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

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MeLW0 Today I learned that there are people who are paid to literally help other people clean up their junk.
0wGnN TIL most cities have poorer areas in the east, due to prevailing winds carrying smoke and odours that way during the industrial revolution.
Ble We, the mods of TIL, have voted in the majority to disallow self posts. Before we enact this, we’d like to hear from you - the community - and see if you have any input or feedback about the matter.
yVJD8 TIL Atom-bomb designer Hans Bethe fled Nazi Germany in 1933 and joined Cornell University where he stayed on as Professor until he died at 98 in 2005, the last of the giants of Los Alamos. The weapon’s reality “was worse than we expected,” Bethe recalled
aK5A TIL A Michigan rock collector found an impressive 93 lb. Petoskey stone in Lake Michigan in 2015, only to have it promptly confiscated by authorities. The stone violated a Michigan law that states no more than 25 pounds of rocks or minerals can be taken from the Great Lakes per year.