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

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E1kN0 TIL If you are an American who just left your job for any reason and lost your job-based health coverage, you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period. This means you can enroll in a Marketplace insurance plan any time of year. You usually have 60 days from the day you lose your coverage to enroll.
vkx TIL only 20% of Americans were in-favor of interracial marriage at the time it was deemed legal by the United States Supreme Court.
YmNG TIL that a guy died in 2012 after being hit by two cars. He had apparently been trying to create a bigfoot hoax by wearing a ghillie suit and walking on a highway.
0wV5R TIL that for decades Chinese villagers consumed dinosaur fossils as traditional medicine. They believed these 'dragon bones' would help children with dizziness and cramps.
grQ5W TIL, while reading about "H.M.S. Pinafore" on Wikipedia, that "The British Tar" is a glee, which is "a type of English part song composed during the Late Baroque, Classical, and early Romantic periods (roughly the Georgian era)." So a glee club is a club for the singing of such songs.