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TIL Lost Egyptian pyramids may have been found by Google Earth

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KObKQ TIL in 1976, Margaret Hamilton reprised her role as the Wicked Witch of the West for an episode of Sesame Street. Screenings showed kids were "exceptionally attentive" during scenes with the witch and their fear was difficult to judge. The episode was never re-run and became lost.
RrK6 TIL Nobel Prize winner Richard Feynman’s second wife wrote in her divorce complaint: “He begins working calculus problems in his head as soon as he awakens. He did calculus while driving in his car, while sitting in the living room, and while lying in bed at night.”
dDgg8 TIL the 1999 multiple-platinum selling album "Play" by Moby was initially a failure with poor sales and little airplay. The first show to support the album was attended by about 40 people only. Not until the songs were licensed to films, TV shows and commercials that the album became a smash hit.
AQ7d TIL the Aryan Brotherhood makes up less than 0.1% of the prison population, but is responsible for 18% of murders in the federal prison system.
kDPe TIL the German word, backpfeifengesicht, that roughly translates into meaning “A face that needs to be slapped (or punched).