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TIL a high school teacher made a tumblr about stupid things high schoolers write in essays

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yQl9e TIL the Egyptians likely used water to build the pyramids instead of land ramps or aliens.
9YyQp TIL that prehistoric European often connected Oak trees to their respective lightning gods. Modern scientific evidence points to Oak trees as being more likely to be struck by lightning.
N7OR6 TIL that you have to weight your bags to take the train in Canada
RjAl TIL that Simon wrote “The Sound of Silence” in his bathroom, where he turned off the lights to better concentrate. Then he’d play, in the dark, ‘Hello darkness, my old friend / I’ve come to talk with you again’.
J1J1j TIL in 1958, King Saud of Saudi Arabia plotted to assassinate Egyptian President Nasser by shooting down his flight to Cairo. When Nasser made his speech, he waved the cheque used to pay for his assassination to the crowd