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TIL that The Great Pyramid of Giza is the only one of the 7 Wonders of the World still standing today. The other 6 have all been destroyed by earthquakes and other natural disasters.

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Z87Jv TIL The anime Fullmetal Alchemist’s quality dropped significantly due to it outpacing it’s source material. Once the Manga was finished, the show was re-made properly.
yVdDe TIL Little Ice Age (16th - 19th century) led to bad harvests, hunger & starvation for millions of people; increased disease and crime. The 17th century was marked by pronounced political instability and upheaval, such as the English revolutions & wars in Spain, Italy, China, and the Ottoman Empire.
kOXB4 TIL Friar Park, the late George Harrison's house, had a scale model of Matterhorn among its features.
nW9bG TIL that there are 167 Zoroastrian fire temples in the world, of which 150 are in India. Of these only 9 (1 in Iran and 8 in India) are the main temples known as atash behrams and the remaining are the smaller temples known as agiarys.
78pb7 TIL that the term mortician was invented as part of a PR campaign by the funeral industry, which felt it was more customer-friendly than undertaker.