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TIL over one million mummified animals have been found in Egypt. (Mostly cats, of course.)

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Zp8no TIL in the 2nd round of the 1977 Badminton World Championships, Flemming Delfs was disqualified for arriving too late to the court before the deciding game but his opponent Ray Stevens refused to accept victory on a walkover. Delfs won that match and later ended up winning the tournament.
DQeVJ TIL that the APA declassified homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973
d8Nw9 TIL that it is illegal for a person to defame, insult or threaten the royal family of Thailand, and if caught, can cost you 3 to 15 years PER COUNT of insult
8NDG TIL: The Third World was so named during the Cold War to describe countries not aligned with the US or USSR, and had nothing to do with poverty
rR5gw TIL that in 2005, cabbage was banned from Korean baseball after frozen cabbage leaves fell out of Doosan Bears' pitcher Park Myung-Hwan's cap mid-game. After an emergency meeting, KBO officials ruled that cabbage leaves are considered an “alien material” that is capable of disrupting a game.