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TIL Dagger in Tutankhamun’s tomb was made with iron from a meteorite

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NXVJJ TIL: that in 1995 Bogota, The mayor Antanas Mockus employed traffic mimes to shame people breaking laws. And they managed to significantly reduce violation in the most dangeour urban area of Latin America.
5Oop TIL that our universe may be inside a larger universe
4noa TIL that the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, updated his Harvard University alumni listing to include his 8 life sentences as “awards” and his current occupation as “prisoner.”
Br7K TIL that Back to the Future II was originally going to take Marty McFly to 1967 where he’d meet an acid-tripping , motorcycle-riding Doc Brown and his hippie parents. The entire script is available online.
BgopW TIL the world's longest-reigning current monarch is also an absolute monarch. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah has been ruling Brunei for 57 years. He's also the country's Prime Minister, Minister of Defence, Minister of Economy, Minister of Home Affairs, and Minister of Foreign Affairs.