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

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Yg57 TIL the EU saves all its citizens’ texts, calls and emails for up to 2 years.
OG0Qa TIL that the longest running laboratory experiment in history, the Pitch Drop experiment, had its seventh drop fall in 1988. However, nobody witnessed it and its custodian, Professor John Mainstone, had stepped out to get a drink the moment the drop occurred.
jNJjE TIL that nearly 1/4th of all Caucasian service members of the Union Army were foreign-born, coming from countries such as Germany, Ireland, Scotland, Italy, and Russia among others. 9.7% of the Union Army were African American freedmen from the north, half being ex-slaves.
VBn60 TIL about the R9X variant of the Hellfire missile that has no warhead, but instead uses six pop out blades to cause fatal damage to its target.
WklOo TIL that in 2009, a 14 year old boy in Essen, Germany was heading to school when he saw a "ball of light" in the sky heading towards him. A small rock then hit his hand, bouncing off and causing a foot wide crater in the ground. He is one of the few recorded humans to be struck by a meteorite