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TIL: The world’s largest pyramid, Tlachihualtepetl, can be found not in Egypt, but hidden beneath a hill in a small town in the central Mexican state of Puebla.

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R7Gaw TIL Germany was one the first countries to introduce animal protection laws, including banning cutting the tails and ears of dogs without anesthesia or causing unnecessary harm to animals. This was largely thanks to its animal-loving leader at the time, Adolf Hitler.
YpjaZ TIL: More than Half of all U.S. Presidents have come from just 4 states - New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Massachusetts.
7rPKM TIL the name X-Ray came from its discoverer Wilhelm Röntgen while he investigated many properties of the new rays. He temporarily termed them "X-rays", using the mathematical designation ("X") for something unknown.
wLnw6 TIL of the Texas City Disaster, the deadliest industrial accident in United States history. The explosion, caused by a ship full of ammonium nitrate catching fire, was so large that the ship's anchor serves as a memorial to the explosion where it landed... a mile and a half inland.
neyoG TIL That Metallica Garage Inc generates so much in royalties that it became a de-facto pension plan for the artists covered