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TIL Sudan has nearly twice as many pyramids as Egypt.

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e0r45 TIL about the Battle Of Yultong, where 1.4k Filipino troops fought against 40k Chinese troops, winning with only 12 KIAs, 38 wounded and 6 MIAs while killing 7.5k Chinese soldiers.
VB1VD TIL The town of Crestone, Colorado is the only place in the United States that allows burial on a pyre.
Y7WEB TIL that in 1844, Professor H. Booth claimed “from inhaling the odour of beef the butcher's wife obtains her obesity.” This was part of the 19th-century miasma theory, which linked diseases and weight gain to inhaling “bad air” from rotting matter, influencing public health during cholera outbreaks.
edW6 TIL a pilot and copilot must eat different meals to minimize food related illnesses compromising the flight
l7a8V TIL Eternal Recurrence is the idea that everything you experience will repeat in exactly the same way, forever. Expanded on by philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, it encourages living fully, as your life will be eternally relived in the same moments.