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TIL that many/most unearthed Egyptian mummies were eaten by Europeans or used in disturbing ways

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YpNjx TIL Gorillas hum happy songs when they eat. “And if it’s their favourite food, they sing louder.”
0OMA TIL: There’s a resort near Disney World that is just for kids with terminal illness and their families. There is no waiting list and they won’t turn away any child. It was started by a Holocaust survivor.
vP8W4 TIL on November 12, 1833, there was a meteor shower so intense that it was described as meteors "falling like snowflakes". It was so intense that it was thought to be the end of the world, but at the same time it gave birth to the study of meteor astronomy.
NgN TIL There was an American musician in the 1970s who sold very few records in the US, so he quit music and became a demolition worker; in 1998, he found out that his records had gone platinum in South Africa.
DQ1or TIL about "stotting", where some herbivores will jump high in the air with stiff legs to (presumably) signal predators that they are too fit to attempt to catch.