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TIL The restoration steps of Tutankhamun's golden sandal, They received it in a very bad condition, The sandal soles were completely disassembled, the sandal will be displayed in the huge hall of Tutankhamun in Grand Egyptian Museum in Giza, in the next year (2021).

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VBAWm TIL that the US Coast Guard uses a captured Nazi German sailboat to train its cadets
kJGJ7 TIL about "Wake Up!", a Christian rock album by Pope Francis that was released in 2015.
4kam5 TIL The movie Footloose, which is about a town where dancing is prohibited, is inspired from a real town, Elmore City, Oklahoma. The ban started before statehood, and high-schoolers petitioned in 1980 to be able to dance at prom
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