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TIL The NFL is Tax Exempt
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TIL of the "singing" Colossi of Memnon, two large statues of Pharoah Amenhotep III, which have been described throughout history as making low moaning, whistling, or blowing noises due to vaporizing dew escaping from cracks within the statues.
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Til a disease is something that needs to be cured, such as infection, injury, toxic exposure, cell degeneration, etc. Illness is something that needs to be managed such as feelings of pain, discomfort, distress, weakness, fatigue, etc.
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TIL: Between 1855 and 1900, SIX surveys attempted to locate the 120-degree CA-NV border line, with results differing by more than three miles.
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TIL that George Lucas was so sure that Close Encounters of the Third Kind would out perform Star Wars at the box office that he proposed to Steven Spielberg that they trade 2.5% of the profit on each other’s films. To this day Spielberg receives 2.5% of the profits from Star Wars.
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TIL that must of us can recognize the lower case loop-tail form of ‘g’, but for the life of us, most of us can’t draw it.