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TIL that scientists diagnosed a 2250-year old Egyptian mummy with metastatic prostate cancer

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grMly TIL during the Titanic's sinking, Lucile Carter and her children was separated from her husband William. When she met him again on the rescue ship Carpathia, "All he said was that he had had a jolly good breakfast and that he never thought I would make it." They divorced less than two years later.
6E4lW TIL that the sun loses about 6 million tons of mass every second due to nuclear fusion and the solar wind. Despite constantly losing large sums of mass, it has only lost roughly 0.05% of its original mass over the last 4.5 billion years.
nexXW TIL metabolized body fat is excreted mostly as Co2. So you "burn" fat and breath it out.
W7xld TIL before his comedy career, Chevy Chase was a drummer in a group with Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, who would later go on to form Steely Dan.
78mjZ TIL Laurence Olivier hit Maggie Smith in the face so hard she was knocked unconscious during a 1964 production of Othello.