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

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VMelZ TIL Charles Simonyi was the first billionaire to go to space. Simonyi, a software architect and early Microsoft employee, paid a total of $60 million for two trips to the International Space Station. He entered orbit and spent a total of 4 weeks in space.
nkYP TIL “The needs of the many outweighs the needs of the few” has no classical history. It was first spoken by Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
ADWjd TIL that a modern art critic was asked to review some of Adolf Hitler's paintings without being told who painted them. He judged them to be "quite good" while also stating that the artist's depiction of human figures in the paintings revealed his profound disinterest in people.
wEN6 TIL it’s considered belittling and insulting to refer to Ukraine as “The” Ukraine.
OoKK7 TIL that in 1923 the USPS instituted a requirement that all delivery addresses feature a mail-box or drop-slot to reduce the time that mail carriers waited at each door.