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TIL I learned the blocks used to build the Pyramids of Giza weigh an average of 2.5 tons, some blocks weigh up to 50 tons!

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Oo1x7 TIL the compound which gives feces its smell, skatole, smells like flowers in small amounts meaning that roses really do smell like poo
VM8wk TIL of Sleep Paralysis, where your body temporarily paralyses itself so that you're unable to move or speak during a lucid dream. It's possible to wake up while still being paralyzed, resulting in hallucination - seeing, hearing, feeling, or smelling something that isn't actually present
wLYvJ TIL that astronauts who return to Earth after a long time in space drop things in mid-air and expect them to float.
M7Qa TIL that in 1953 the United States government detonated a nuclear bomb in Utah more powerful than Little Boy of Hiroshima. The bomb, nicknamed Harry, was known to the Utahans as Dirty Harry because of the large amount of fallout.
vPpx8 TIL that after hurricane Katrina, due to miscalculation, FEMA had 85M pounds of ice at storage facilites around the U.S and melted it two years later after 12.5 million dollars in storage fees.