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

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16WZ4 TIL: William Daniels (Mr. Feeney in Boy Meets World) is the voice of K.I.T.T. the car in the 80s series Knightrider.
awOyM TIL that the smallest instrument in the world is a Nano Guitar- a miniature guitar the size of a red blood cell. One model could only be played by its stings being targeted with miniature lasers in an atomic force microscope.
rR51x TIL In December 1969, a Korean Air Lines plane was hijacked by a North Korean agent soon after taking off from Gangneung.The pilot was forced to fly to and land in North Korea. The crew, aircraft, and seven of the passengers have yet to be returned.
VBKnQ TIL the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts is unknown
x6PNw TIL that Diet Soda began with the 1949 launch of La Casera in Madrid, Spain, using cyclamate. In 1969, an experiment at UW-Madison found that a cyclamate combination caused bladder cancer in laboratory rats, and was accepted by consumers and doctors as a cause of cancer in humans.