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TIL The pyramids were built by paid laborers. Not slaves.

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k8b7 TIL - At $150 Billion… The International Space Station is the most expensive thing ever built.
OoAgY TIL The Kiwi fruit is not from New Zealand, it’s from China. It was the New Zealand farmers who named it Kiwi fruit so they could market it.
DQoBj TIL among private industry jobs with 20,000+ people & at least four reported deaths in 2021, tree trimmers & pruners had the highest rate of work-caused deaths in the US with a fatality rate 21 times higher than the typical American job.
mr0x TIL that in 2009, a Polish woman filed a lawsuit against a hotel in Egypt after claiming that sperm in the swimming pool got her 13 year old daughter pregnant.
ANkJd TIL about Franca Viola and the fact that in Italy up until 1981 an accusation of sexual violence would lapse if the perpetrator married his victim in what was called "Rehabilitating Marriage"