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TIL in a eureka moment worthy of Dr. Frankenstein, scientists discovered that two 3,000-year-old mummies in Scotland were actually made from the remains of six people.

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p8g5N TIL the Gendarmerie of Haiti, the collaborationist police-force raised by the USA during its occupation of Haiti in the early 1900s, sent a rifle team of indigenous gendarmes to the 1924 Olympics. The team won the nation's first-ever Olympic medal, a bronze, in the team free rifle event.
6EYel TIL that there's a shipwreck in the English Channel packed with 1,500 tonnes of explosives, which could detonate at any given moment.
XEnVR TIL in the United States, 78% of people with the name Leslie are female, but in England 95% are male.
Y7xPB TIL there is a large Dietz & Watson deli meats recall
yQAkw TIL that Stephanie Kwolek invented Kevlar and is the only woman to win DuPont company's Lavoisier Medal for outstanding technical achievement