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TIL ancient Nubian mummies were found to have the modern antibiotic Tetracycline in their bones. They got it from beer.

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RGZQ TIL of planet HD 189733b, where it constantly rains molten glass of over 1500°F horizontally in 6000kmph winds
yVbxp TIL you can pay to bathe in radioactive water in Japan
Oo6Jg TIL Sir James Matthew Barrie assigned the copyright in Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Children's Hospital. Peter Pan is the only copyright in the UK that has been extended in perpetuity, meaning the Hospital can receive royalties forever. It is the copyright which never grows old.
PYDXe TIL that, before iTunes, before CD's, music was played on something called a "phonograph record," or more simply, "record". Made of a type of plastic, record were flat discs with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. One needed a "phonograph", or "record player" to play the music.
9jd6 TIL that the face on almost every cpr doll in existence is modeled after an unidentified woman who’s dead body was found in the seine river in france during the late 1880s.