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TIL in 2000, two visiting Egyptologists found that a 2,700-year-old statue was unwittingly being used as a bike rack by staff in the basement of a Southampton museum. It had been ignored for a century.

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eKj6 TIL In 1988 Ian Mckellen visited Michael Howard, then Environment Secretary, to lobby against Section 28. Howard refused to change his position but did ask him to leave an autograph for his children. McKellen agreed, but wrote, “Fuck off, I’m gay.”
jW7E TIL of John ‘Mad Jack’ Churchill, a British Army officer who fought throughout the Second World War armed with a longbow, bagpipes, and a basket-hilted Scottish broadsword. He holds the last recorded kill with a bow and arrow in action.
kJAQm TIL the Nationals (MLB baseball team) began the 2019 season with a record of 19–31, with their chances of winning the World Series at 1.5%. The Nationals went a perfect 5-0 in elimination games during the playoffs, all of which were come-from-behind victories, the first team in MLB history to do so.
KZVR TIL that Cerberus, the three-headed guard dog of Hades in Greek mythology, takes his name from the Greek word “kerberos”. Kerberos means “spotted”, which means Hades literally named his dog “Spot”.
WkYJL TIL That ice is predicted to change into a metal at pressures above 4.8 TPa (or ~48 million times the Earth’s atmospheric surface pressure). At even more extreme pressures, it could melt into a quantum liquid.