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TIL there's a field of thousands of prehistoric stone jars in Laos

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OoLwg TIL Renee Zellweger does not look the same as she used to. Still beautiful, though!
MlmK TIL there was a crazy theory that the half-brother of Japan’s first Shogun survived the Shogun’s wrath after being seen as a political threat, and escaped to Mongolia. There he settled and changed his name to Genghis Khan.
J1Ov8 TIL that the Brihadeshwara (Big) Temple, Thanjavur, India, has survived, perfectly intact, 1000 years of aging, six earthquakes, many monsoons and at least one big fire even though built without using any binding material.
p81wQ TIL Steve Jobs was fired from Apple by the CEO that he hired. He then moved on to create NeXT, bought Pixar, then became CEO of Apple.
G01N TIL during the siege of Stalingrad the commanding officer Friedrich Paulus was promoted to Field Marshal with the expectation he commit suicide rather than surrender. After he surrendered he was heard saying “I have no intention of shooting myself for a Bohemian corporal”. He lived till 1957.