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TIL in 2004, a Wal-Mart was built on a section of Teotihuacan. Ancient artifacts were shipped off to dumps by workers who found them on the site.

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8eG6P TIL that Saudi Arabia planned a bid to host the 2030 World Cup with Greece and Egypt and offered to fund the construction of new stadiums in Greece for the tournament. But, because of controversy for accusations of sportswashing Saudi Arabia's poor human rights record, planning for the bid ceased
RY8j TIL there is a community of Hutterites in South Dakota that are virtually untouched by time.
KOKY4 TIL that the house mouse (domestic mouse) migrated from regions within India to the rest of the world. This has large scale implications to the origin and spread of agriculture, human settlement and human civilization itself.
6EaZ8 TIL the origin story for centaurs in greek mythology explains they were born because a deformed guy called centaurus(whose father got him by having sex with a cloud nymph faking as hera) had mated with magnesian mares.
VpWD TIL there exists a series titled “Manga Bible,” an adaptation of the Christian Bible in manga form.