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TIL that Egyptian pyramid builders were paid in beer

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yQ8je TIL that scientists predicted in 2022 there will be an Explosive Collision from Tow Merging Stars. It will cause a Bright Red Flash in Space witch will be visible from earth with naked eyes for many nights and days.
oRZQW TIL: Faulty calculations of a doctors surplus led U.S. medical schools to put a moratorium on enrollment between 1980 and 2005. During that time, the US population grew 70 million, but the number of medical school graduates stayed at 16,000 yearly.
O07Y TIL that the Goosebumps series was originally meant for girls.
WRDd TIL: Physicist Alan Sokal wrote a mock paper full of made up gibberish in the style of post-modernist philosophers and managed to get it published to prove that some philosophers are bullshitters.
0wbdM TIL the most generations alive in a single family has been seven. Augusta Bunge aged 109 years, followed by her daughter aged 89, her grand-daughter, 70, her gr.-grand-daughter, 52, her gr.-gr. grand-daughter, 33, her gr.-gr.-gr. grand-daughter, 15 and her gr.-gr.-gr.-gr. grandson born in 1989.