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

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Jlev TIL Max Woosnam captained Manchester City football club and England, scored a century at Lord’s, played golf off scratch, won Wimbledon and Olympic gold in tennis, made a 147 break at snooker and beat Charlie Chaplin in table tennis with a butter knife.
jNngM TIL: Lobster roe turns bright red when cooked hence known as Lobster Coral
d8Jp7 TIL that George Washinton owned a quartet of dogs named Drunkard, Taster, Tipler and Tipsy
E1QWp TIL Sweden banned hunting brown bear mothers who are still with her cubs. Mother bears have now evolved to care for their cubs an additional year.
o8GW TIL that in 2014 Sony made a cassette tape that could hold 185 terabytes of data or the equivalent of 3,700 Blu-ray discs.