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TIL that the Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest manmade structure on Earth for 3,871 years until the Lincoln Cathedral in England was finished in 1311.

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jNL1n TIL In the gas chambers of Auschwitz it could take between 7-20 minutes for the victims to die from the gas while they fought to get out.
78ZYb TIL The first international sporting event of the modern era was a cricket match between the Dominion of Canada and the United States in 1844 (this pre-dated the modern Olympics by ~50 years)
Zplbp TIL scientists created cyborg cockroaches. They put wires the cockroaches and steer them by remote control.
VMlJZ TIL the Finnish cities Turku and Tampere have a fierce rivalry, every year students from Tampere go to Turku's market square and jump, in a joking attempt to sink Turku back below the Baltic sea.
VGWk TIL, Thomas Everett Blasingame was a Texas cowboy for seventy-three years. At ninety-one, he was still on the job at the JA Ranch south of Amarillo. Two days after Christmas in 1989, he dismounted his horse, Ruidosa, stretched out on the grass, folded his arms across his chest, and died.