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

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Yp0Zx TIL that the past tense for the English word ‘dare’ is 'durst’
PYLJ TIL during the Chernobyl, three engineers volunteered to dive into a pool of radioactive hydrogen peroxide with no working flashlights and open a pipe to stop the reactor from exploding. They succeeded.
D1ljv TIL Pfizer seized the homes of a poor neighborhood in New London, Connecticut in 2000 to build a new research facility. Long after the homes were bulldozed, Pfizer abandoned its plans, leaving behind a wasteland.
Z8pap TIL EA charged real money for players to fill their tank with gas in the game Need For Speed: No Limits
9pdG TIL that Julia Child kept her phone number listed publicly. Anyone could just call her at home for cooking advice. Apparently on Christmas and Thanksgiving her phone rang nonstop and she took every call. What a woman!