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TIL your state’s highest paid public employee is probably a football coach

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P1YDg TIL the ruins of "Great Zimbabwe" in Africa were constructed with geometric precision instead of mortar and had religious sculptures matching the sophistication of other medieval civilizations. Chinese and Persian artifacts found at the site also prove they had far-reaching trade networks.
N7KnN TIL that listening to metal and it's subgenres has been found to help relieve stress and decrease hostility, according to a study by the University of Queensland in 2015
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nW45B TIL there was a guy who was suspected to be Jack the Ripper, because his last words before he was hanged for an unrelated crime was ""I am Jack The...", but a modern biographer suggest that he might have been saying "I am ejaculating"
rRYPW TIL that Jeff Bezos is not the richest man in history. Both Carnegie & Rockefeller had 3x his wealth.