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TIL The Great Pyramid of Giza Has Eight Sides and Not Four

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MN87 TIL Domino’s Pizza cancelled their ‘30 minutes or less’ guarantee because of their drivers causing accidents while rushing to deliver pizzas on time, resulting in at least one fatality.
KP6G TIL: NYPD sent an undercover officer to follow André the Giant around whenever he went out drinking in their city to make sure he didn’t fall on anyone (again).
gr0QL TIL that the heaviest UK coin made for circulation was the 1797 copper tuppence, coming in at a whopping 57 g, weighing as much as ten American quarters and more than 6.5 times heavier than the modern £1 coin. It was worth the same as two pennies.
JYR6k TIL one of the selling points for introducing the guillotine during the French Revolution was equality - commoners could now enjoy the comparatively quick and painless death of decapitation just like the nobility, and would no longer have to endure brutal deaths such as those caused by hanging.
rRZd1 TIL that the Quaker Oats Company and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology agreed to pay $1.85-million to settle a federal lawsuit over an experiment in which radioactive oatmeal was fed to boys at a state institution in the 1940s and 1950s.