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TIL before Suez Canal, there existed Canal of the Pharaohs, closed in 767 CE

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E198P TIL: Pilots of the SR-71 Blackbird were often tasked to fly over heads of state triggering a shockwave to remind countries what they were doing was against US policy
AlDn TIL African immigrants in Switzerland have a crime rate of above 600% that of the native Swiss population
pr9e TIL when Halle Berry accepted her Razzie award for Catwoman in person, she thanked Warner Bros. “Thank you for putting me in a piece of shit, god-awful movie… It was just what my career needed.”
LkvZP TIL during Mao'great leap campaign in China, starvation was so horrible that people started comitting acts of canabalism which includes eating the death and parents eating their own children.
6wO8 TIL spray paint used to cake up in automobile factories to such a degree that it could be cut, polished, and set in jewelry. The resulting stone is known as “Fordite” or “Motor Agate”