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TIL that there is a holiday called Yap Day

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dDrWK TIL The Great Pyramid of Giza actually has 8 sides. It can only be seen from above, when the sunlight hits at the right angle, and was discovered by accident in 1940 by an RAF pilot flying overhead.
LQ6YZ TIL that in 2015, a M2 machine gun was returned to an Army depot for refurbishment. It was found to have been the 324th M2 made, and that it had been in service since 1921.
7rBYb TIL about the "Ghost Ships of Kiptopeke" - concrete ships sunken off of Kiptopeke, VA, USA to form a breakwater
GB0Q TIL Cyndi Lauper’s hit “She-Bop” is about female masturbation. It was on the Parent Music Resource Center’s “Filthy Fifteen” list, which eventually led to the creation of the Parental Advisory sticker.
Gmj4 TIL that salt is iodized because it is the simplest and most cost-effective measure available to battle iodine deficiency, whicih is the leading preventable cause of intellectual and developmental disabilities