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TIL that when the last woolly mammoths died out, the pyramids of Giza were already a thousand years old

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N7gBb TIL that although Adolf Hitler had no children, there are still five living members of his extended family who have all sworn never to have kids of their own so that his infamous bloodline dies with them
yE0w TIL of the cockpit voice recorder of China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 captured the sound of the ground-proximity warning system giving instructions in English and of the crew discussing in Chinese the possible meaning of the English phrase “pull up”
6w58 TIL one of the reasons Japanese culture is often seen as bizarre in the Western World is because Japan is only one of five countries to never be colonized by Europe.
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