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TIL that the pyramids were not built by slaves but by well-nourished, payed workers

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rNEvW TIL in his final years, Marlon Brando was a secret tech geek who collected Mac computers, experimented with digital effects and Photoshop, was a fan of the game Myst, and pretended to be a Chinese exchange student online
BD5L TIL that Pee Wee Herman’s father was a WW2 fighter pilot who, along with 4 other pilots and a total of 4 aircrafts, founded the Israeli Air Force and helped win Israel’s independence in 1948.
VM548 TIL that Stephanie Kwolek the inventor of Kevlar was working on finding a new, lightweight substitute for steel belting in automobile tires, on fears of a looming oil shortage and in anticipation of a market for lighter tires. What resulted was a new fiber five times stronger than steel by weight.
d8Zo8 TIL that 99.75% of paper cups aren't recycled since it requires special facilities to separate the paper from the hydrophobic coating and the drink contamination
a5vA TIL that when the Oxford College was founded, a grove of oaks had been planted to replace the beams in the dining hall. This plan had been passed down from one Forester to the next for over five hundred years saying “You don’t cut them oaks. Them’s for the College Hall.”