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TIL that Mummy Brown was a pigment used by European painters that was made from the flesh of Egyptian mummies. It was also common to export mummies from Egypt to Europe to be ground up and used as “medicine”

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5Gek TIL that Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall, a game released in 1996, had a map size of 161,600 km². That makes almost the size of Florida which has an area of 170,300 km².
GanE TIL the tallest tree in the world, the largest tree in the world (by volume) and the oldest tree in the world (non-clonal) are all in California.
VpBk TIL Bill Murray does not have an agent or a manager. Instead he has a number to call and pitch him an idea via the voice mail. If he likes it he will call you back. The phone number is impossible to find. The only people who know it are people who already have worked with him.
X01V6 TIL that the Lantang village in Nepal, was entirely destroyed a massive avalanche resulting from an earthquake on 25 April 2015. As of 1 May 2015 most of the village's inhabitants are "presumed to have perished".
GYZv5 TIL Amy Carter (daughter of President Jimmy Carter), has been arrested 4 times: three times for protesting against Apartheid and once for protesting against CIA recruitment in college