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TIL that there is a mountain in Wyoming that was formed by a 500-square mile rockslide 50 million years ago. The slide traveled 25 miles in about 30 minutes and may moved like a giant hovercraft as the result of volcanic activity breaking limestone down into carbon dioxide gas

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16VMW TIL Although different in stature and build and created earlier than the famed Egyptian pyramids, Sudan has more ancient pyramids than Egypt. There are around 2000 Kushite pyramids in upper Sudan, compared with 200 Egyptian pyramids.
JA7B TIL of the first ever man cured of HIV. Timothy Brown was living with HIV when he was diagnosed with Leukaemia. He received a blood stem cell transplant using a donor with a rare HIV resistant gene. Today he is HIV negative.
1kEX TIL Pope Paul VI spent the night of July 20,21 1969 watching the moon through a telescope of the Vatican Observatory during the first moon landing. Afterward, he praised the achievement by writing at length about the event
1G4P TIL a German U-boat in WWII sunk because of a malfunctioning toilet!
awlXN TIL that the spaniards destroyed an Inca temple and built a cathedral on the temples foundations. Later, an earthquake completely destroyed the Spanish-made cathedral but left the foundations of the temple intact.