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TIL Sudan has twice as many pyramids as Egypt

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9Yo7m TIL about mud cookies that made from dirt mixed with salt and vegetable shortening or fat. People eat them as a way to stave off starvation in one of the poorest country on Earth, Haiti.
e0Exg TIL that the United States Dollar is solely backed by "full faith and credit by the United States" after the gold standard was dropped in 1971.
vPJL8 TIL about pelican spiders that have giraffe-like necks and extremely long chelicerae (mouth parts) and prey exclusively on other spiders
0dbQj TIL Male Sea-Monkeys have long arms and will fight over females, but if one dies the winner must remain attached to the corpse for the rest of its life and is then unable to mate anyway.
J1VGj TIL: Pope Celestine III claimed that air used in windmills belonged to the Church. He only allowed windmills to be built after paying a papal tithe, effectively taxing wind power in 1190