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TIL King Tut's knife was made from meteorite iron.
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TIL Jim Henson owned a green Kermit-eyed 1978 Lotus that some called the "Car-mit"
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TIL That Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin concluded the first that stars were primarily made of hydrogen and helium in her 1925 thesis, but added that her results were "spurious" because of the consensus at that time. She was eventually proved right by other researchers, yet is almost never credited.
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TIL in an experiment conducted on pet and shelter cats, the majority of cats preferred human interaction with strangers over food and toys
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TIL what "Genuine Leather" really means.
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TIL “bald-faced lie” and “bold-faced lie” are both correct; the original phrase is “barefaced lie,” but ‘bare’ meant brave or bold at the time.