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TIL The Great Pyramid Of Giza has 8 sides not 4.

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4poJ TIL When preparing for Leaving Las Vegas, Nic Cage would videotape himself wasted so that he could watch and re create his drunk speech patterns
olAA TIL in 2002 Russell Brand wanked off a man in the toilet of gay bar in Soho for his documentary show RE:Brand (NSFW)
vPENR TIL a classical work described as "Ode to Internet - V.90 56k dialup modem handshake for orchestra" was composited from a July 27, 1996 performance with the Monteverdi Choir and L’Orchestre Revolutionaire et Romantique, conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner at Avery Fisher Hall.
1aJGX TIL many who survived the sinking of the USS Indianapolis in 1945 were subsequently eaten by sharks as they bobbed in open waters for four days. Navy intelligence had ignored a message from the sub that had torpedoed it, thinking it was a trick to lure American rescue boats into an ambush.
rndy TIL that near the 1940s it was popular to build DIY radios called “crystal sets.” It needed no other power source but that received solely from the power of radio waves received by a wire antenna.