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* King Tutankhamun's golden burial mask (you know, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mask_of_Tutankhamun this thing]) is one of the most famous and iconic artifacts pertaining to ancient Egypt, but it is also one the media tends to get wrong. Quick, what is on the mask’s forehead? A cobra, right? Well, right! But there is also a vulture next to the cobra, something that, 99% of the time, isn’t there when the mask is depicted in the media. Kind of odd for something so famous.
* Most claim that the flush toilet was invented by a plumber named [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Thomas_Crapper Thomas Crapper], his name being an [[Ironic Echo]] of the device he invented. Truth be told, he can't even take credit for the word "crap", which was being used well before he was born. The flush toilet was actually invented in 1590 by [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/John_Harington_(writer) Sir John Harington] (a godson of Queen Elizabeth I, by the way) but it was a noisy and unsanitary device (due to a lack of sewers) that didn't catch on until around 1880.
* What was the first major politically motivated act of terrorism on US soil? 9/11? Nope, not even close. The World Trade Center bombing in 1993? No, not that either. Pearl Harbor? Getting closer, but no. Everyone seems to forget about the 1916 attack on an island off of Liberty Island in New York, where a bomb was detonated in a munitions dumb by German agents, creating one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever recorded. This is, by the way, the reason the Statue of Liberty’s torch is closed to tourists; it was damaged by the attack. Since television had not been invented yet and the government tried to conceal the attack, it is not as widely known as the other examples mentioned.
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