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TIL: A McDonald’s southwest salad has more calories than a Bacon McDouble cheeseburger

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wjaP TIL Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, Gene Roddenberry’s wife, appeared in almost every Star Trek TV series and movies (other than Enterprise). She played Nurse Chapel, Lwaxana Troi, and the voice of the Enterprise-D and E onboard computer.
A6nl TIL King Tut had a club foot, feminine hips, an overbite. He had Kohler’s disease. DNA determine that Pharaoh’s parents were undoubtedly brother and sister.
R5KV9 TIL about bog bodies—human remains found in peat bogs that are naturally mummified for thousands of years. A bog's highly acidic, oxygen-free environment preserves skin, hair, nails, organs, wool and leather clothing but dissolves bones—allowing scientists to study their appearance and last meals.
DQDxr TIL about the “Groom of the Stool”, a high ranking position in court that would handle the king’s shit.
7oZP TIL that in 1835, a house painter who believed he was the King of England tried twice to assassinate U.S. President Andrew Jackson at a funeral. Both guns mis-fired and Jackson, 67, beat the man with his cane. One of the people who restrained the would-be assassin was Davy Crockett.