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TIL that one of the two daggers buried with King Tutankhamen was made out of meteorite.

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DBor TIL the United States Air Force nearly detonated an atomic bomb over North Carolina in 1961. The bomb was 260 times more powerful than the device which devasted Hiroshima in 1945.
aNRN TIL: There is a name for a belief system where you simply don’t care if there is a god or not
41ko TIL in 1857 a group of Mormon militiamen in Utah dressed as Indians and slaughtered a group of 137 travelers in a wagon train crossing to California, killing all except the youngest children, who they spared and tried to raise as their own.
wopyo TIL you can reduce the levels of forever chemicals (PFAS) in your blood through blood/plasma donations
a1mM TIL when Robert Downey Jr was eight, his father offered him drugs, which led him to a long life of substance and alcohol abuse. RDJ credits Mel Gibson with helping him get sober and narcotic free.