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TIL an egg yolk is a single cell

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PmKw TIL that inside the conqueror Tamerlane’s tomb in modern day Uzbekistan, it read “Whoever opens my tomb, shall unleash an invader more terrible than I.” Two days after the exhumation of his tomb, the Nazis invaded the USSR.
Wk0L4 TIL that "Dumpster" is actually a brand name and that the generic name for the waste container is "skip" or "skip bin"
LR8V TIL the CIA conducted a secret recovery of a Russian Nuclear Submarine from a depth of 16000 FT, with the help of Howard Hughes.
mbXO TIL of Little Canada, MN. The city was established in 1844, 23 years older than Canada.
wkv7 TIL that the Belzec extermination camp is rather unknown because out of the approximately 600,000 people to be executed there, only one or two camp inmates survived WWII to tell the world about the camp.