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

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v1Dg8 TIL that because of Marie curie's affair with Paul Langevin, Swedish Academy of Sciences tried to dissuade her from coming to Stockholm to receive her Nobel prize(1911) so that the "adulteress" should not shake hands with the Swedish king.
YpKOZ TIL that North Koreans have had a long-held belief that Kim Il-sung had the ability to teleport until it was debunked by North Korean state-run media recently
Ooa54 TIL that the concept of a "white elephant" came from the King of Siam, where he gifted an albino elephant to people who displeased him; knowing that they couldn't get rid of it and that the upkeep cost would ruin them financially
XEk9X TIL Germans call mobile phones "Handies". eg Klaus gave Otto a Handy for his Birthday.
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