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TIL Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer. Also so many baboons and ibises were mummified for the trade it likely drove them to extinction in Egypt.

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E1jK0 TIL that mama and papa are almost universal for mother/father. But believed to be a coincidence due to language acquisition.
eY5n TIL in 2006, more than 2/3 of the House of Representatives passed a resolution to amend the US constitution to make flag desecration illegal, and the resolution failed in the Senate by only one vote (66-34).
jxPQ TIL Steve from “Blues Clues” released an indie rock album produced by Dave Fridmann of Mercury Rev and featuring Steve Drozd of The Flaming Lips.
N7rnQ TIL Handwriting experts suggest Czar Alexander I of Russia, who defeated Napoleon, faked his own death and reinvented himself as the monk Fyodor Kuzmich, who had noble manners, spoke several languages, and claimed to have forgotten his past.
oQar TIL that Winfield Scott (1786-1866) served as a active duty general for 53 years, longer than anyone in American history. He entered service under Thomas Jefferson and retired under Abraham Lincoln.