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TIL that the country with the most pyramids is Sudan

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KOBP9 TIL that a peice of horse tack known as the 'Bearing Rein' was extreamly in the 18th and 19th century to keep horses heads up due to a fashion, they were often tightened til the point of discomfort for the horse, until a story about a horse was released in 1877 and bearing reins fell out of fashion
4XL4J TIL "Scottie" from Star Trek was Lieutenant James Doohan who was shot by machine-gun on D-Day. One bullet blew off his finger, 4 struck his leg and 1 hit him in the chest. A silver cigarette case stopped the bullet to the chest. He later joked it was the only time being a smoker saved his life
Me4L7 TIL that Vincent Van Gogh might have been murdered by a teenage bully who dressed as a cowboy.
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VMVGp TIL no-one knows the probability of being able to win a game of the card game Klondike with best-possible play. This has been described as "one of the embarrassments of applied probability".