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TIL maple syrup has more calcium than milk

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R7wrQ TIL that famous "Soviet flag over Reichstag" photo, was doctored because the soldier holding the flag was wearing 2 watches. Photographer erased the watch on his right arm because he thought soldier had looted items from dead Nazi soldiers, which was a punishable offence.
6EPvJ TIL that the tomb of Qin Shi Huang has never been fully excavated because archaeologists are afraid what booby traps may lay in wait.
9wWaD TIL about ternary plots. You can visualise 3 quantities on a 2d triangular graph if they add up to a constant (eg. soil components or colour composition). One graph is “x+y+z=1” which makes a triangle on positive axes, with the regular 3d gridlines intersecting to form triangular ones in the graph.
QJdop TIL the capital of North Korea, Pyongyang, plays a really eerie song across the whole city every day at 6 am, as well as one later on in the evening at 11 pm.
Y4JB TIL the ancient greeks had a system where every citizen could vote to exile any politician for 10 years - ostracism.