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TIL, There has never been a mummy found inside of the Great Pyramids, there are also 0 hieroglyphs within any the Pyramids

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6gMQ TIL that the solar system is currently traveling through an interstellar cloud that is as hot as the surface of the sun and 30 light years long.
y8kJ TIL nine-banded armadillos always give birth to identical quadruplets.
neNAo TIL in the late 1960s some researchers reported that catnip gave people a marijuana-like high when smoked, but it turned out they had simply mixed up the two plants.
BgdWD TIL In The 1930s, Baseball rivaled Soccer In England, attracting 10,000 spectators per game. In 1938, at the inaugural Baseball World Cup, Great Britain defeated the USA 4 games to 1. The outbreak of WWII interrupted the sports ascendancy, and it never recovered its prewar popularity.
awGBo TIL that Charles Crocker who was a rich railroad tycoon in the 1800’s built a 40 foot tall spite fence to block the sunlight from getting into his neighbors house because they wouldn’t sell their land that he needed to complete his mansion next door and led to a 26 year feud.