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TIL people used to steal corpses and mummies to grind up into paint and medicines

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RrK6 TIL Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman’s second wife wrote in her divorce complaint: “He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night.”
aKBy TIL that anyone sworn into any statewide or county office or judgeship in Kentucky must declare under oath that he or she has not participated in, acted as a second or otherwise assisted in a duel.
GAw7E TIL in October 2020, Oreo constructed a concrete bunker in Svalbard, Norway, to protect their recipe in case of an asteroid impact. The vault also contains Oreos wrapped in Mylar and vials of milk powder.
OGAva TIL that John Byrne said that he “unconsciously lifted” the story of the X-Men comic “Days of Future Past” from the plot of the 1972 Doctor Who serial “Day of the Daleks”.
p8BDZ TIL In 1985, Neil Armstrong and Edmund Hillary went to the North Pole together.