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VMRP8 TIL the Lincoln Memorial was almost a giant pyramid. During the planning process for the memorial various designs were considered and rejected. One design would have had the memorial built inside of a giant Egyptian style pyramid.
XOdP TIL Biodiesel has the highest energy balance of any fuel. For every one unit of fossil energy needed to produce biodiesel, 3.2 units of energy are gained.
Q7NL TIL that papercuts hurt so much because the cut often bleeds very little or not at all, leaving the skins pain receptors open to the air.
MeWbb TIL Ted Bundy Worked at a Suicide Hotline While He Was an Active Serial Killer
yP58 TIL that the Emancipation Proclamation applied only to slaves in Confederate states. Union-friendly border states and southern regions under Union control continued to practice slavery.