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TIL that AMC Theatres is owned by the richest man in China

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j6rYn TIL, that the first pyramid in Pharaonic Egypt wasn't Khufu's pyramid (the great pyramid of giza), However it was his father's (sneferu) known as the "Bent Pyramid," located in Dahshur.
Eg4aP TIL Birds can eat rice safely, they don't explode and die. It was a 1996 urban legend that has been spread every wedding season.
loj1B TIL the most common foreign languages for a US President to speak have been Latin (14) and Greek (9).
OGjaX TIL the oldest surviving Alt History work is in Book 9 of Livy's History of Rome, in which he muses about Alexander the Great turning West and invading Rome
Bxpb TIL: Australia committed genocide against the Aboriginal, native people from 1910-1970 in an effort to create a “white Australia.”