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TIL Rosalia Lombardo, dubbed as the world’s most beautiful mummy was well embalmed that even after 100 years, this tiny corpse looks more or less as if it is just sleeping.

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gMkoW TIL there is a small Antarctic island called Shagnasty Island, named after the blue-eyed shags the researchers found there.
9Ee7 TIL Mexicans are extremely genetically diverse because of the mixture of Amerindian, African, and European tribes that have settled in Mexico. Mexicans from one region are as different from those from another region as Europeans are from Japanese.
9PZm TIL Himmler didn’t allow atheists in the nazi SS. He thought it was important that his men could find faith in a higher power.
nRk9 TIL in order to eliminate gender bias, many orchestras use blind auditions in which the candidates play their instrument behind a screen.
GYnpj TIL that Foo Fighters' front man Dave Grohl is such a huge fan of UK rock band Killing Joke, he did all of the drumming on their self-titled 2003 album free of charge.