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TIL there’s statistical evidence that the number of archaeology students increased after the release of “Raiders of the Lost Ark.”

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Y7Eav TIL that Blackie the ship's cat on the HMS Prince of Wales survived the sinking of the vessel that claimed 327 lives
W7Z5B TIL Mansfield Smith-Cumming, inspiration for James Bond's "M," was involved in discovering cum worked as an invisible ink during WW1. Agents adopted the motto "Every man his own stylo". However, the use of semen as invisible ink was ceased because of the smell it produced for the eventual receiver.
wo9M TIL that 4% of the sand on Normandy is shrapnel from D-Day.
GXoJ TIL that Kim Peek, the inspiration for the movie Rain Man, was a savant born with significant brain damage who has read over 12,000 books and remembers everything he’s read in them. He reads two pages at once, one with each eye, and remembers it all.
8VWZ TIL Flags fly at half-mast to make room for the “invisible Flag of Death” above