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TIL traces of nicotine and cocaine were found in Egyptian mummies. This finding is almost unbelievable considering nicotine and cocaine are indigenous to the Americas.

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LkXW9 TIL, once a jockey died half way around the track in a race, but his horse finished first making him the first man ever to win a horse race while dead.
bMg4 TIL That Baboons often kidnap puppys of wild dogs and raise them as guard dogs to protect the Baboon clan.
jNBQN TIL since the studio didn’t have enough budget to shoot Riddick (2013). Vin Diesel had to mortgage his house, obtain loans and spend most of his own money on the production
LkZRv TIL the stereotype of Native Americans saying "how" as a greeting comes from the Anglicization of the Lakota word "háu", which was used by men to greet other men.
9Y9A7 TIL Babylonians were using a rudimentary form of calculus to calculate Jupiter’s displacement each day along the ecliptic, the path that the sun appears to trace through the stars. Historians had thought such techniques did not emerge until more than 1400 years later, in 14th century Europe.