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TIL Paper fortune tellers have 5 other names
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TIL that the Great Pyramid of Cholula is the largest pyramid by volume known to exist. It's shorter but wider than Giza and consists of multiple structures build overtop one another.
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TIL the US Supreme Court upheld a three-strikes life-imprisonment sentence for $230 worth of fraud
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TIL that Rep. Tom Moore Jr. once submitted legislation to the Texas legislature in favor of honoring notorious murderer Albert DeSalvo “for his work in ‘population control’” as an April Fool’s Day joke. Without paying any attention to it, it was unanimously passed.
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TIL that J.K. Rowling wrote a real person into The Goblet of Fire. The girl was named Natalie McDonald, a Harry Potter fan who was dying of leukaemia while Rowling was still writing the book. You see her character as a first-year who dons the sorting hat and is sorted into Gryffindor.
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TIL about ultramarathoner Jasmin Paris, who won the 268-mile Spine race in 2019 in a record setting 83 hours 12 minutes, while stopping at aid stations to express milk for her daughter.