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TIL King Tutankhamun owned a collection of boomerangs.

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yVrAv TIL citizens in Estonia are given an ID card that includes a public/private key pair allowing users to cryptographically sign digital documents.
QNrKM TIL After the battle of Sedan, over 100,000 French soldiers were captured, including Emperor Napoleon III himself, but he headed to a "comfortable captivity" while his soldiers were left starving in makeshift POW camps. On hearing the news, Napoleon's wife asked "why didn't he kill himself?"
N7XGM TIL in 2007, producers for ABC's Extreme Makeover coaxed a contestant's family into making hurtful comments about her ugliness, then cut the contestant from the show because the recovery period wouldn't fit their production schedule. The contestant's sister killed herself four months later.
dreZ TIL The Music Industries that push violent/drug related rap also owns private jails, requiring 90% occupancy filled.
rvJ0 TIL that Jason Bateman bought the domain jasonbateman.com after learning it was a gay porn site. (45:10)