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TIL The Great Pyramid is made of 6.3 million tons of material which is more material than it took to build all the churches and cathedrals in England.The Pyramid base covers 13 acres and is flat and level to within 1cm

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N8E6 TIL that the Pillars of Creation were destroyed by a supernova 6000 years ago
EBGX TIL: in 2009, a South African IT company had a carrier pigeon race against the country’s largest internet service provider, Telkom, over 80 km. In a two hour period, a 4GB flash drive was carried by Winston the pigeon and read, while only 4.2% of the data had been transferred by Telkom.
awO00 TIL that public guillotine executions in France were stopped after someone recorded the execution of convicted murderer Eugene Weidmann.
4X7P5 TIL about "Le Grand K", a hunk of platinum kept in a vault in a Paris, that until recently was the international prototype for a kilogram of weight. A kilogram's weight is now defined based on the laws of the universe so as to avoid a physical object that decays over time.
MeKAa TIL that a Chef's hat traditionally has 100 folds. This is said to represent the number of different ways a chef knows how to cook eggs