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TIL There is enough stone in the Great Pyramid of Giza to build a 3 meter (9 foot) wall around France

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rRK5M TIL Humans don't have strong olfactory skills and kissing allows you to smell and taste a person and see if you have different immune responses as we tend to feel more attracted to someone with a different immune response
E14Yd TIL that Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World was sent an email from a high school girl who talked about how she didn’t quite fit in with others, wasn’t part of any social groups, and felt like she was stuck in “the middle”....so he wrote a song about her.
Wke6B TIL the clavicle (aka the collar bone) is the most commonly fractured bone.
VMX6k TIL there is a 29 story skyscraper in Manhattan that has no windows, and was originally designed to withstand a nuclear blast
Y7BnG TIL Physical fitness was not one of the NASA requirements for astronauts landing on the moon. Astronauts had an initial thorough exam before they were accepted into the program but after that, physical fitness was up to the individual to maintain