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TIL That part of the reason that mummies are so rare is because we ate them.

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kVaW TIL a woman, who was a private cook, had to keep changing jobs because her clients kept mysteriously getting sick or dying. She was later found to be the first person in the US that was a healthy carrier of Typhoid. She unintentionally infected 53 people, lending her the name “Typhoid Mary”
M7gBV TIL LeBron James has played 1703 total NBA games, regular season and playoffs, in his 20 year career. This is an AVERAGE of 85.15 games per year. The regular season is 82 games long.
d8bk8 TIL of the Future Library Project which includes 100 works of literature to remain unread and unpublished until 2114. A thousand trees were planed in 2014 to supply the paper for the anthologies of these works. Each year a new notable author is chosen, most recently Ocean Vuong.
dEk9 TIL that a pound (.45kg) of dimes and a pound (.45kg) of quarters are both worth exactly $20 USD.
Ypyrv TIL that more than 2000 baby girls in the US were named Khaleesi from 2014-2018