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TIL that The Great Sphinx of Giza is the oldest monumental sculpture in human history!

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Arwd TIL, that scientists in Portugal found a way to ferment coffee beans into 80 proof booze, destroying the caffeine in the process
ADdAn TIL that the USSR were seriously considering a nuclear strike on China in 1969, before Nixon stated that the USA would nuke 130 Soviet sites in retaliation
GjWQ TIL: In 2014 The International Journal of Advanced Computer Technology accepted an article whose content was “Get me off your fucking mailing list.” repeated for ten pages.
QNMnd TIL the Sargasso Sea, located entirely in the Atlantic Ocean, is the only sea without a land boundary on the planet.
WkEr8 TIL Hernando Colón, the son of Christopher Columbus, started a universal library in Seville, Spain. He really did try to collect everything, and catalogued books, manuscripts, pamphlets and tavern posters, from weighty tomes to throwaway ephemera.