› added 10 years ago

147

TIL By the time the last mammoth became extinct, the Great Pyramid of Giza was over 1000 years old.

Read more io9.com

via reddit.com

5YR6r TIL about the existence of "reverse money laundering", the process of disguising the use of clean money to finance illegal activities.
njE9 TIL leaving the US with more than $5.00 in pennies is a crime that could land you in jail for five years.
OoAZ7 TIL Lee Harvey Oswald's widow, Marina, is still alive and still lives in Texas, the very state where her then husband killed President Kennedy.
mxoO TIL a large pizza in Australia (11") is smaller than a medium pizza in the US (12")
ADYAl TIL there are radioactive elements called "bone seekers" because they are chemically similar to calcium and the body tries to use them to build bones.