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

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R7VL8 TIL about the 1986 movie Troll, which is about a young wizard named Harry Potter Jr, and features an old woman who gives Harry advice and an evil villain who hides his essence in someone close to Harry – Over a decade before JK Rowling released her first Harry Potter book
1pZV TIL that real guns are allowed at both the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, but water guns are banned.
6jvQ TIL that The U.S.gave up its high-energy physics project in Texas after Congress had yanked funding — after building 15 miles of underground tunnels at a $2 billion cost to the U.S. taxpayers.
VBZJB TIL that despite being the largest animal on the planet, even blue whales have a natural predator: orcas/killer whales.
WkVlA TIL: A professional big game hunter died during a hunt when a member of his group fired at a storming elephant cow and the animal fell on him.