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TIL Sudan has twice as many pyramids as Egypt

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e0J4k TIL Karl Marx left a meagre estate worth only £250 or £25K in today's money upon his death despite being extremely famous. However, he had befriended German writer Friedrich Engels throughout his lifetime whom upon his death left Marx's daughters an inheritance worth $4.8 million.
Y79eB TIL Humans have a third set of teeth, but the genes for this set are inactive.
Z8grY TIL that The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield, Ohio, the abandoned prison where The Shawshank Redemption was filmed, was purchased for $1 and converted into a tourist attraction that nets $16 million annually.
v1el8 TIL that Andrew Jackson’s parrot cursed so loudly and for so long during the former president’s funeral that the wicked bird had to be removed from the service as shocked mourners watched.
99YX TIL the very first iPhone unlocking was done by a 17-year-old. He then traded the device for three locked iPhones and a Nissan 350Z.