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TIL the Luxor hotel and casino in Las Vegas is the third largest pyramid in the world.

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4XNMa TIL that Jimmy Carter’s national security adviser was once awoken to a report of 2,200 incoming Soviet missiles: a false alarm due to the malfunction of a 46 cent chip
VBKXG TIL that Shane Stant, the man who attacked figure skater Nancy Kerrigan, asked to have his assault record expunged so he could join the Navy SEALs. He was 34 when he asked - too old to be a SEAL.
XEEMQ TIL the man who coined the phrase “a mind is a terrible thing to waste” briefly had Ted Bundy as his driver and bodyguard
VM9WG TIL Michaelangelo made fake ancient art. While in Florence, he was asked to make a statue look like an ancient work so it would be easier to sell. One piece was sold to Cardinal Raffaele Riario who upon finding out the piece was a fraud was so impressed that he invited Michaelangelo to Rome.
yNwa TIL Schizophrenic Victorian era painter Louis Wain is famous today because the changes over time of his anthropomorphic paintings of cats show the gradual degradation of his condition as his schizophrenia worsened with time.