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TIL Banana Laffy Taffy isn’t “fake” banana flavor, it’s just based on a cultivar that is effectively extinct.

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JY77j TIL that New Zealand is a small piece of the 8th continent Zealandia. It is known as a drowned continent.
MemP8 TIL Female mummies in Ancient Egypt were always more decomposed than their male counterparts. They discovered that this was because male bodies were embalmed a lot sooner than female bodies. Female bodies were kept at the family home until they started to decompose in order to avoid necrophilia.
16QgO TIL the infamous Sack of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade only killed an estimated 2,000 civilians
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mx68O TIL Mormonism's Joseph Smith bought Egyptian scrolls from a travelling mummy salesman, translating the undeciphered glyphs to reveal the Book of Abraham — holy scripture written by Abraham himself. The papyrus survived, and modern Egyptologists found it's actually a funeral text for a guy named Hôr.