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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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OooAa TIL Sweden first settled the modern US and is responsible for the Log Cabin structure traditionally believed to be an icon of American pioneers
ZPmB TIL if you laid all the molecules in a teaspoon of water end to end, it would stretch 10 times the width of the solar system
d8Agj TIL that in 2015 a huge 2100 foot (640 meters) wide human skull-faced asteroid, nicknamed the “Halloween Asteroid”, zoomed past Earth on Halloween. It completes one rotation every 2.94 hours, and will be seen again in November this year.
OG7w7 TIL some tropical species of cone snails have a "harpoon" sting which can be fatal, and has killed at least 27 people. One species is nicknamed the "cigarette snail" as the victim will have only enough time to smoke a cigarette before dying
xV0a1 TIL of déjà rêvé (from French, meaning "already dreamed") - the feeling of having already dreamed something that you are now experiencing.