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TIL King Tutankhamun was mummified with an erection. It broke off soon after his discovery.

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QNZvX TIL about the 1998 Cavalese cable car crash. 20 people in a cable car were killed by US pilots flying too low. They were found not guilty, but later dismissed for having destroyed evidence.
J1LOj TIL a 5-year-old girl from Oklahoma defeated 52 other children to win a regional spelling bee and qualified for the 2017 national event. She is the youngest participant to secure a spot in the Scripps National Spelling Bee. She spelled such challenging words as jnana, sarsaparilla and Baedeker.
YZmP TIL that a study from Australia found sniffer dogs produce false positives 80% of the time. “No test which has an 80 per cent error rate could be considered a reasonable basis on which to conduct an intrusive public search of a citizen going about their daily business.”
rn90 TIL of a Buddhist monk who was famous for “enlightening” women with sex, referring to his penis as the “Thunderbolt of Flaming Wisdom”.
lj7A TIL pickpockets will sometimes yell “someone stole my wallet” so everyone around them pats their wallets, revealing the pocket valuables are held in.