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TIL Arsenio Hall was the voice of Winston Zeddemore on The Real Ghostbusters seasons 1-3

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W7pNN TIL-Macchu Pichu is a earthquake-proof city. Incans created a brilliant engineering technique called ‘ashlar masonry’, where rocks are cut to fit perfectly together without mortar. This allowed the stones to move in its place during an earthquake, before settling back in their original positions.
ZmNB TIL a 57yo Japanese man has been learning to SCUBA dive specifically so he can look for his wife’s remains after she was presumably swept away during the 2011 tsunami. He says her last email to him was “… I want to go home”, and he is determined to make that happen.
D1Vrg TIL After working as a repairman in the U.S. Air Force, Morgan Freeman joined the Pasadena Playhouse where he started to dance even though he says he never could really dance. Ultimately it landed him his first acting job. "I looked good doing it, but, no, I could never really dance."
dDZGd TIL that Saddam Hussein commissioned a copy of The Holy Quran, etched in his own blood. It took 27 litres of his blood to draft the Quran.
ZpLKR TIL it wasn't originally aluminium or aluminum, but alumium