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TIL Stalin secretly helped write Poland's 1952 constitution

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8eERG TIL the oldest extant lighthouse in the world, the Tower of Hercules (formerly known as Farum Brigantium), was modeled after the Lighthouse of Alexandria. It was built between the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and is located in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
nlkW TIL that there is so little genetic diversity in cheetah that they can accept donated organs from practically any other Cheetah with little fear of rejection
kOonB TIL of Pedro Rodrigues Filho, a serial killer who killed most of his victims as revenge including his own father who killed his mother, a group of gangsters who killed his girlfriend, and 47 other inmates in jail. It is suspected that he had over 100 victims
oB9EE TIL that the Yucatan is so flat that any hill is considered to be a Mayan relic. Thousands of them have never been examined by an archeologist.
NX8g1 TIL: That in 2012, a Dutch World War II memorial was revealed on which the names of Jewish, Allied and German military deaths were written alongside each other in Comic Sans. The names were eventually scraped off following complaints, only for the rewritten message to also be written in Comic Sans.