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TIL the bomb used in the Oklahoma City bombing took an estimated inflation-adjusted $10 000 to produce

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vPXJ8 TIL Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt. After being destroyed and looted, the ones left are at risk of disappearing due to shifting desert sands. Theres a multi-billion dollar project to plant a line of trees across the entire African continent to create ground stability and stop the desert spread.
GYy05 TIL The reason why we view neanderthals as hunched over and degenerate is that the first skeleton to be found was arthritic.
W77BY TIL Before he was the best-selling author of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown tried his luck as a musician. In 1994 he released an album called Angels & Demons—a title he reused for a 2000 novel.
wLypo TIL that a British officer named George Cairns got his arm cut off by a Japanese soldier. Cairns killed that Japanese soldier, stole his sword, and cut down several others until he succumbed to blood loss
d8Qr7 TIL in Japanese culture, it is very rare for one to tell their parents "I love you" (sometimes never) or to express their affection towards their parents like hugging