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TIL that Egyptian Pharaohs and Deities that weren't known for being born of a God or Goddess had to take part in cannibalistic consumption of a God to take in a power known as hk3w that was later personified as the God Heka.

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AN7xn TIL that the country Bosnia and Herzegovina does, as the name may suggest, consist of two separate autonomous entities. However they are "The Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina" and "Republika Srpska" and this is entirely coincidental.
oBXDW TIL bail money isn't a payment, it's collateral. If you show up to court, you get the money back (or it goes towards court costs). If you skip your court date, you lose it.
nWnBB TIL that Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, once proposed a 10 gigaton bomb. It would have been 670,000x stronger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, and 200x stronger than the Tsar Bomba, the largest bomb ever created. It's estimated to have been able to set all of France on fire.
wLBMW TIL that Catherine De Medici maintained 80 ladies-in-waiting, whom she allegedly used as tools to seduce courtiers for political ends. They were known as her "flying squadron". She also used them as a court attraction. In 1577, she threw a banquet at which the food was served by topless women.
OWL4 TIL Major Harold Hering was discharged from the Air Force in late 1973 for asking the question “How can I know that an order I receive to launch my (nuclear) missiles came from a sane president?” under Richard Nixon.