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TIL "Blocks found with dates from all seasons in the Egyptian calendar suggest the pyramids were built year-round and not just when the Nile was in flood."

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Y5mG TIL in 1992 a Russian submarine attempted to surface, and ran directly into the bottom of the hull of an American submarine, who was spying on their ports.
Wl8X TIL Tom and Jerry’s episode where Tom performs Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody No 2 won the Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 1946
8e7bb TIL that in the first 40 years of the US Interstate Highway System, it directly saved the lives of 187,000 people, prevented injuries to nearly 12 million people and returned $6 in economic productivity for each dollar that it costs.
0wNGv TIL that airplane food is heavily seasoned but your sense of taste is dulled when you're on an airplane.
4O6N TIL the way the French say “Go fly a kite” is “Go somewhere else and see if I’m there.”