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TIL: Dwarfs Were Highly Respected In Ancient Egypt

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Z8OZY TIL the 31st Vice President of the United States Charles Curtis was 3/8 Native American raised on reservations and his dad fought in the Civil War Kansas Volunteers.
e05XL TIL Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell, was the inspiration for the Bond Villain in Tomorrow Never Dies. At the end of the film M orders a cover-up story paralleling Maxwell's real death, “Falling overboard on his yacht."
5VOgk TIL The “british food staple”, Fish and Chips, comes from a Sephardic Jewish dish called Pescado Frito
0wmNM TIL At the end of WW2 30,000 copies of Munro Leaf's 'The Story of Ferdinand' were given out to German children in order to encourage peace. It had previously been banned under Hitler.
Y6xr TIL that molten tungsten is so hot, that if you dropped it into lava, the lava would freeze the tungsten…