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TIL Sudan has twice as many pyramids as Egypt

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ylNJ TIL the Red Swastika Society was not a German organization, but a Chinese equivalent to the Red Cross.
d8B9j TIL that in Babylonian mythology, Enli ,god of Storms and winds, flooded the world because humans were making too much noise and disturbing his sleep.
LkglQ TIL many countries have their own version of “when pigs fly.” In South Africa it’s “When horses grow horns.” In Russia: “When the crawfish whistles on the mountain.” In Albania: “On August 36.” In Greece: “Right on the Day of St. Dick’s”
9wkGD TIL:A billionaire spent decades giving away his fortune so he could die broke.
xVGkw TIL about practice babies. In the early to mid 1900s, orphaned babies were lent out to college home economics programs where they were taken care of entirely by groups of students in order to learn child-rearing skills.