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TIL that two mummified infants were found alongside Tutankhamun in his tomb - bodies of his stillborn daughters.

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QNEL6 TIL in 2016 North Korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack (the Lazarus heist) on Bangladesh's national bank and came within an inch of success
Z8DvD TIL in 1904 a Wisconsin based company advertised their new invention, the "bachelors undershirt". No need for a wife, sister or mother to mend this button free shirt as it was stretchy enough to simply pull over your head.
woLD6 TIL that the largest nuclear-powered submarines ever built for the U.S. Navy, the Ohio-class submarine, on a single load of supplies can go around the world twice while submerged, whitout having to surface at all.
OobPY TIL that nearly every U.S. state with an official state dance selected the Square Dance. I always thought it was just a Texas thing...
J76V TIL that Alexandre Dumas, the French author of The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers, was black.