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TIL the worlds largest pool covers 20 acres, holds 66 million gallons of water and has a 115 foot deep end

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xVdnb TIL that many ancient papyri (and knowledge about Ptolemaic Egypt) were discovered after a workman, frustrated with having discovered yet another crocodile mummy, threw it and broke it, leading to the discovery that some ancient mummies were stuffed with written papyri
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BjLK TIL that, due to a wartime shortage of copper, the Manhattan Project borrowed almost 15,000 tons of silver from the US Treasury to make wiring for the electromagnets in isotope-separating mass spectrometers. The wire, worth over a billion dollars at the time, was removed and returned after the war.