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TIL that there are still unexplored passageways in the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt.

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kJV5d TIL, Jimmy Carter, the 39th President of the United States, was the first U.S. President to be born in a hospital? Jimmy Carter is also the 4th oldest living former head of state and the 26th oldest of all time—an impressive feat considering all those ahead of him reached 100.
6EnK8 TIL that mapmakers used to plant fictitious streets in their maps, so that if a person copied their map, they could point out the replication of the fake street to prove copyright infringement.
1k5X TIL Carly Fiorina resigned from HP. Since then she has been described as one of the worst tech CEOs of all time.
LQLMV TIL Potassium chloride, a salt substitute for food often mixed with ordinary table salt to form low sodium salt, is used as the final drug in the sequence of execution by lethal injection
x5B5 TIL that women represent 70% of college graduates in the US, while men only represent 30%.