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TIL Egypt isn’t the country with the most pyramids. It’s Sudan and they have approximatively 255 pyramids !

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grgOy TIL that in 2019, American actor Charles Levin, aged 70, died after his car got stuck in unmaintained wilderness road in Oregon. After trying to free it, he left the car in search of help and fell to his death down a 30-foot (9 m) embankment. The body of his dog, Boo Bear, was found inside the car.
a1N0 TIL Richard Nixon’s 1960 presidential campaign song was called “Click with Dick”, and included the lyrics: “Come on and Click with Dick, he’s the one that none can lick, he’s a man of peace and reason, on the job in every season.”
GYAa4 TIL EA offered Benjamin Burnley, vocalist of Breaking Benjamin money to praise Star Wars: Battlefront 1 on social media during it's first release. He said he'd try it, and give his honest opinion. He ended up hating it so much that he broke the disk and refused to take their money.
v1Qx4 TIL Mars Polar Lander(1999) failed because of a bug in the software caused by the fact that the program in question expected the programmer to use the International System of Units (meters, kilograms, ...) in the calculations. However, the programmer had used the American System for calculations.
Me9eK TIL about the One-electron Universe Theory, which states that the reason because all of the electrons have the same charge and mass is because they are just the same electron travelling through space and time