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TIL that cats were mummified along with their owners in Ancient Egypt

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jd9j TIL A British sailor in WWII escaped his submarine from depths of 171 feet and managed to get to the surface and survive.
8aGeX TIL that Yale graduate William Chester Minor, who became one of the largest contributors for the compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary by providing usages of words from his antiquated book collection, was a clinically insane murderer who cut off his own penis.
N4N TIL that there are more people of Lebanese descent in Brazil than there are in Lebanon itself.
JYNdV TIL Sharon Tate dreamed her death two years before she was murdered
Gvd7 TIL The shortest correspondence in history was a telegraph between Victor Hugo and his publisher in 1862. Hugo was vacationing when Les Misérables was to be printed, and asked how his book was received by messaging the publisher a single-character “?”. Sales being brisk, the reply was a single “!”.