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TIL the sixth largest Pyramid in the world is a Bass Pro Shops megastore located in Memphis, Tennessee.

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8LBZ TIL that in 1921, 300 affluent black people were massacred when white people rioted and razed “Black Wall Street” - Greenwood, Tulsa.
NZkJ TIL Rin-Tin-Tin, the canine movie star of the 1920s, was so popular that he supposedly got the most votes for Best Actor at the first ever Academy Awards. The Academy chose a human instead of Rin-Tin-Tin because they wanted the show to be taken seriously.
NXX6P TIL that an alternate, unused ending of John Carpenter's The Thing was shot, in which R.J. Macready escaped to another research station and took a blood test to prove he was human
kJkPE TIL Cornelius Vanderbilt had an estimated worth of $105 million ($2,885,531,250 in 2022 dollars) at the time of his death in 1877
na47 TIL that a blurry image is not always lost. There’s a program called SmartDeblur that can recover some types of blurry images.