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TIL The pyramids were built by paid laborers. Not slaves.
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TIL Liechtenstein started WWII with an army of 80 men, and came back with 81 after meeting an Italian dude in the mountains
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TIL the founder and lead singer of new-wave band Devo, Mark Mothersbaugh, also composed the music for many TV shows including The Rugrats and Pee-wee's Playhouse.
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TIL that the nonprofit Goodwill pays its disabled workers pennies an hour while the CEO makes up to a quarter of a million dollars a year, all because of a 75 year old federal loophole.
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TIL Phones have an asterisk and pound sign because when Bell Labs designed the first touch-tone phone, their system had two tones which were not assigned values. So, they threw in * and #.
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Til that if adjusted for inflation,The Birth of a Nation(1915) is the first ever film to gross a over a billion dollars,at 1.8 billion dollars gross(in modern money),making it the forth highest grossing film ever.