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TIL: Lady Dai, death in 163 BC, considered the best preserved mummy in the world. Upon discovery she still had moist, soft skin, movable limbs, intact organs and veins with still small amounts of type A blood in them, distinct finger prints and more!

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Rj08 TIL Human Rights Watch released a 175 page report documenting human rights violations in the US meat and poultry industries
XEwBQ TIL 8-yr-old Saga Vanecek found a 1,500-yr-old sword when wading in a lake in Sweden. She pointed it up to the sky and called out, “Daddy, I’ve found a sword!” She was bummed when her dad made her give the sword to the local museum and said she was raising money to make a sword replica for herself.
d65Q TIL Missoula, Montana has a whole “underground city” tunnel network that was used for bootlegging and prostitution rings that is still accessible today.
XAmk TIL for learning the mohawk language and documenting it in the field of lingustics, Alexander Graham Bell was given the title of “honorary chief”.
4RB5 TIL that in 2004 the company Alcoa had to officially declare the proposed site for its new aluminum smelting plant in Iceland “elf-free” before it could begin construction.