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TIL a Dilemma is a difficult choice between just 2 options, Trilemmas, Quadrilemmas, and so forth exist for more options

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RQM8 TIL that King Tut’s tomb was actually found by the archaeologist’s water boy.
x6QaD TIL that after starring as an unemployed man in the 1948 neorealist film Bicycle Thieves, factory worker Lamberto Maggiorani was fired from his real job - his employer assumed the film made him rich, but he was only paid $1,000 and struggled to find work again, mirroring his on-screen character.
OoLg4 TIL Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt
kv7B TIL that one company, IAC/InterActiveCorp, has spun off the Home Shopping Network and Ticketmaster, aqcuired About.com, and currently owns 150 online services such as Ask.com, Match.com, OkCupid, CollegeHumor, Vimeo, Newsweek, The Daily Beast and Thesaurus.com.
QDld TIL Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation, 9 months before Rosa Parks, but was not used as a figurehead for the civil rights movement because she was an unmarried, pregnant teenager.