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TIL, That the Vatican admitted that Galileo was correct about Earth revolving around The Sun, in 1992

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BrZBd TIL of a serious plan to disassemble the Giza pyramids to use it as pre-cut building material in 1830s, proposed by ruler Muhammad Ali Pasha, but cleverly the plan was canceled due to false cost reports presented by his French chief engineer, who thought it would be the only way to save the pyramids
Zp4DD TIL that the theme songs for TGIF classics Full House, Perfect Strangers, Family Matters, and Step By Step were written and performed by the same person.
woDkE TIL Dermot Mulroney Not Only Acts — He Also Plays the Cello for Star Wars and Star Trek Movies
B4mL TIL: McDonald’s coffee is higher rated than Starbuck’s Coffee
vPg9K TIL The sinking of the USS Panay and 3 Standard Oil tankers carrying 600 fleeing Chinese civilians ships during the battle of Nanking in 1937. 3 americans and an unknown number of Chinese civilians would die. FDR would order footage of the sinking edited to lower Japanese culpability and avoid war.