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TIL the ancient Egyptians named the Great Pyramid of Giza "Akhet-Khufu," which translates to "Horizon of Khufu."

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nen69 TIL: When Tennessee seceded from the Union, Scott county seceded from Tennessee. They formed the independent State of Scott. While no major battles were fought on Scott County’s soil during the Civil War, guerrilla warfare was common throughout the county.
9wOKQ TIL about author of the hymn " Amazing Grace " had a rather colorful vocabulary. During his tenure as a sailor, he was reprimanded on several occasions for using language that was deemed inappropriate by the captain, and for creating new words that were deemed to be even more offensive.
v1BGx TIL that Khutulun, the great-great-great granddaughter of Genghis Khan, was a fearsome warrior and a superb wrestler. It was said that she insisted on only marrying a man who could defeat her in wrestling, and that if she won, she would gain a horse from the loser. She accumulated a herd of 10,000.
a8OnA TIL that David Cox and Steven Zucker, two graduate students from Princeton, developed an algorithm for the intersection numbers of sections of elliptic surfaces and named it the Cox-Zucker machine.
m1ELv TIL that following an Asiana airline crash in 2012, a summer intern working at the NTSB "confirmed" the names of the flight crew to a local TV news station as Sum Ting Wong, Wi Tu Lo, Ho Lee Fuk, and Bang Ding Ow. The intern and 3 producers from the station were later fired