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

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KO569 TIL of the Delphi Murders, where two young girls were murdered after posting a photo of the alleged killer on snapchat following them on a bridge in a wooded area. He has still yet to be found.
16rbP TIL: when awarding the 1987 Nobel prize in chemistry to a dr. Donald Cram, the committee accidentally phoned up Donald Cram, a Californian carpet cleaner with the same name.
mxDmp TIL Thailand's aircraft carrier, HTMS Chakri Naruebet, was dubbed the "Thai-tanic" as being little more than a royal yacht.
9Z8p TIL kangaroo rats are so adapted to desert life that they can go their whole lives without a single drink of water.
P11PV TIL scientists once swapped DNA cells between a human zygote and a mouse zygote to see what would happen. While the mouse zygote was able to reprogram and become a mouse, the human zygote "soon died" in every attempt, with no clear view on what would form.