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TIL the Pyramids were ordered to be disassembled and their blocks used to build dams on the Nile. The chief architect personally opposed, but knew he’d be replaced if he defied orders. So he prepared a false cost analysis showing that freshly quarried stone would cost less: thus saving the Pyramids.

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KY88a TIL that Michael Hutchence, the lead singer from INXS, most likely took his own life due to not being able to handle the side effects from anosmia anymore
kJ6x5 TIL The Apollo Mission Control Center at NASA Johnson Space Center was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1985. NASA and National Park Service restored it to the exact moment the 1969 Moon landing took place where controllers celebrated with their cigars
a0xb TIL the Nazis dressed up political prisoners in Polish military uniforms, faked an attack on the German border, and shot the prisoners to justify the invasion of Poland the very next day.
rRvP0 TIL in 2000, Russian submarine Kursk experienced a torpedo system failure. The explosion caused the sub to hit the ocean floor. All 118 crew members eventually perished as a result of failed rescue missions. The president kept it quiet. Later a victims wife and mother were forcibly sedated.
vj6r TIL pig rectum MIGHT be used in some restaurants as calamari. NPR did a blind taste test and could not tell the difference.