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

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WyQY TIL the NYC homeless man who was given boots by a police officer (and a subsequent famous pic was taken) isn’t actually homeless, doesn’t wear the boots, and wants to be paid for unauthorized media exposure.
pYyK8 TIL of TOTO (TOtable Tornado Observatory), a white metal barrel, weighing 250-350 pounds. TOTO would be tipped into a vertical position & swiveled so certain side faced north (for accurate wind direction readings). The closest TOTO deployment to a tornado was on 29 April 1984 near Ardmore OK.
yQnxX TIL Luxembourg's version of Superman is Superjhemp, who unlike the American version has a sizeable belly and draws his powers from eating cheese and drinking beer. He also flies around with his hands in his pockets, "because every real Luxembourger has his hands in his pockets".
4K7w TIL that Anthony Lane, a film critic for the New Yorker, once began reviewing ‘Contact’ (1997) and noted it “v. gloomy,” “odd noir look for sci-fi,” “creepy shadows in outdoor scene,” before realizing he had forgotten to take off his sunglasses.
pYNaN TIL that there is an "extinct" smell encyclopedia, search engine, and library funded by the European Union, with historical accounts from "nosewitnesses"