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TIL King Fahd International Airport serving Dammam, Saudi Arabia is larger than the neighboring country of Bahrain.

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gkX7 TIL that, when Genghis Khan died in 1227, he ordered his burial site to be kept a secret. To this end, his heirs slaughtered anyone who set eyes on his funeral procession. They buried him in an unmarked grave and to this day no one has found him.
X0nJ6 TIL in 1993 Donald Wyman amputated his left leg below the knee with a pocket knife after it got stuck under a large tree during a logging accident where he bled profusely for an hour & feared he'd die. However, he was even able to keep his leg after firefighters retrieved it & surgeons reattached it
mBgx TIL the panda’s gut isn’t suited to digesting bamboo and can only digest 17% of the bamboo it eats. Instead, it is more suited to eating meat, like other species of bears.
J1lAV TIL: There is a figure known as the "unluckiest man in Pompeii". In 2018, archaeologists uncovered his skeleton and a rock where his head should've been, he got struck by the rock and his skull was found in a tunnel a distance away.
n9KB TIL the Beatles did not know how to read music and George Harrison once said that he thought if he learned music theory it would ruin his ability to write songs.