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TIL That the great Sphinx of Giza actually has a tail

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Wkd4d TIL Ecuador, located on the equator, means 'equator' in Spanish.
e0ayb TIL Jerry Springer resigned from the Cincinnati City Council in 1974 after the bad check he wrote for a prostitute was found by police racked up in the massage parlor’s wall with “For Services Rendered” written in the memo. Springer won the seat back in 1975 by a landslide and became mayor in 1977.
8aoMZ TIL in China, the per capita GDP rose from $89 in 1960 to $10,000 today. The life expectancy rose from 43.7 years in 1960 to nearly 80 years today. The country was producing two new billionaires per week in 2017.
W714Y TIL that the CEO of McLaren F1 racing, Zak Brown, appeared on wheel of fortune as a teenager, won $3,050 and spent the winnings to fund his racing career
PYm0L TIL that to celebrate his 6 millionth pound of dropped ordnance, Clarence J. Stoddard bombed North Vietnam with a toilet.