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TIL King Tutankhamun owned a collection of boomerangs.

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0w1wL TIL the human brain remains half awake when sleeping in a new environment for the first time.
baJ9 TIL that the S.S. Minnow, the castaway’s ship in the Gilligan’s Island TV show, was named after FCC chairman Newton Minow, who called television a “vast wasteland.”
gMvMD TIL that during the Chenrobyl disaster - Alexei Ananenko, Valeri Bezpalov and Boris Baranov accepeted a suicide mission to release a safety valve in time and, in doing so, saved the world from a disaster that would have been exponentially worse than the initial explosion.
Lkxb9 TIL that the acapella band from the 90’s Kid TV show “Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego” is not only still together but still touring. DO IT ROCKAPELLA!
oRW6W TIL Disney producers once dumped a bunch of lemmings off a cliff to fake footage of their “mass suicide” for a nature documentary. The documentary won an Academy Award.