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TIL Sudan has twice as many pyramids as Egypt

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E1yW7 TIL Jaws star Robert Shaw rewrote the film's now-famous USS Indianapolis speech. He edited & reordering it, then wrote it into the form it is today. Turning the monologue into something unforgettable.
e00G5 TIL the underground streetcar system in San Francisco passes through the hull of a buried ship after tunnel boring crews discovered it when extending the line in the mid 1990s
1jND TIL when the USS West Virginia was raised following the attack on Pearl Harbor, the bodies of three men were discovered in a sealed compartment, along with a calendar on which they’d marked off 16 days.
BAW TIL a lack of sleep can increase your craving for junk food
R7pol TIL iodine was added to salt in 1924 to combat goiters, but the iodization also resulted in notable increases in intelligence