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TIL Sudan has the most Pyramids in any country with over 350 found so far.

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Jb71 TIL Opossums have a remarkably robust immune system, and show partial or total immunity to the venom of rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and other pit vipers.
dDDVQ TIL John Tunstall who was portrayed as a older gentleman in the movie Young Guns was only 24 when he died in the Lincoln County War.
QNBWd TIL about Thomas Grasso, a murderer who was executed in 1995. He requested 24 mussels, 24 clams, a cheeseburger, 6 ribs, 2 milkshakes, a pie, strawberries and a can of SpaghettiOs as a last meal. His last words were "I did not get my SpaghettiOs, I got spaghetti. I want the press to know this."
LmXr TIL that around 200 Anti-Lynching Bills were introduced from 1882 to 1968. The Senate would not pass them. In 2005 the Senate formally apologized for stopping these bills.
eWe4 TIL that Claudius was the only one of the first 15 Roman emperors not to take a male lover. Others considered him strange for only being attracted to women