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

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JY0Xl TIL An archaeology team in China unearthed a group of ancient bone flutes dating from around 8000 years old and invited a music professor to play them. He tried the original instruments, playing about 10 tunes on them, including popular folk songs
evjg TIL That Ferrero, the company that makes Ferrero Rochers also makes Kinder, Tic-Tacs, and Nutella. Also, Nutella alone uses a quarter of the worlds annual hazelnut supply.
BvVb TIL that football player Mardy Gilyard was kicked out of the University of Cincinnati and owed the school $10,000. he then worked 4 jobs simultaneously and slept in his car just to get back into school, eventually becoming the leading wide receiver in UC history
6Eodm TIL of Owen J. Baggett who was the only person ever to shoot down an aircraft using a pistol
X0okE TIL that in 2022, there were born roughly a million more babies in Nigeria alone, than every single European country combined