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TIL Crispy Chinese noodles are just fried egg roll wrappers

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epRPD TIL: More than 1,800 antique papyrus scrolls from 79 AD were preserved by being carbonized due to the eruption of Mount Vesuvius - some contained hitherto lost works and the efforts to read them are still on-going
Br9DL TIL after George I of England’s death, his mistress the Duchess of Kendal kept a raven that she believed to be him
9YkDM TIL McDonald’s burgers were not big enough to satisfy Jamaicans, which led to the failure and closure of all McDonald’s locations in Jamaica.
XBZE TIL that in 1982 a British Airways 747 had all 4 of its engines flame out after flying through a cloud of volcanic ash over Indonesia. The crew managed to maneuver the powerless plane through the cloud, restart all 4 engines in mid-air, and then safely make an emergency landing in Jakarta.
yV888 TIL the Cologne Cathedral in Germany has the “Shrine to the Three Kings” that is believed to contain the bones of the Three Wisemen who brought gifts to the newborn Jesus. They also have three crowns that they supposedly wore.