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TIL: The oldest wig in the world was found in an Egyptian burial site dating back to 3400 BC. The Egyptians used it to reduce incidences of head lice and protect the scalp from the sun.

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x6pPD TIL that voice navigation with numbered streets can’t tell the difference between a wide array of street addresses because they sound identical.
jXxj TIL a gravitational slingshot (of say a space probe) robs the host planet of a very small amount of orbital velocity. Do it enough times and you’d cause said planet to crash into the Sun.
W1DL TIL that two of Saturn’s moons, Janus and Epimetheus, only have an orbital altitude difference of 50km. Due to this, one moon will ‘catch up’ to the other every four years, and they will begin a 100 day process in which they exchange orbital positions.
VBMXQ TIL it was only 200 years ago Humans discovered Dinosaurs.
KOMaw TIL in 1993 an American spelunker found evidence of people living in 2 Ukranian caves during WWII. It was 1942, when a group of families survived the Holocaust by seeking refuge in the caves. Nearly 2 years later, someone left a bottled message alerting all of them the area was safe from Nazis.