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TIL the dagger found in Tutankhamun’s tomb was made from iron from a meteorite

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8aVPa TIL that in Scarface (1983) The prop firearms were equipped with electronic synchronizing devices so that they would only fire when the camera shutter was open. The result was that the guns' muzzle flashes are much more visible and consistent than in most movies
XXQE TIL if you have no debts and have $10 in your pocket you have more wealth than 25% of Americans
KO9aJ TIL that the only existing footage of the first plane hitting the tower during 9/11 was only recorded because 2 people wanted to make a documentary on what it was like to be a firefighter in New York City, and when the cameraman heard the plane, he pointed it at the tower, and captured the crash.
0d5LL TIL that a fringe rationalist ‘death cult’ in the Bay Area—whose members were talented data scientists from NASA, Google, and Oxford—faked their leader’s drowning, lived in box trucks armed with samurai swords, and are now linked to as many as six deaths across multiple states.
KlKR TIL: As late as 1985 there was still 26 states with no drunk driving laws. You could map a 3,700 mile drive from Key West in Florida to the Idaho - Canada border. That would allow you to legally drink the whole drive.