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TIL Pluto is as big as russia.

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69PL7 TIL in 1987 a Japanese team of researchers discovered cavities beneath the Sphinx in Egypt, which was later confirmed by American researchers. All further examination was blocked by the Egyptian government and til this day the caverns have never been explored or excavated.
X0Kj TIL That during the Mohammed Cartoon controversy in 2005, Iran threatened to start an International Holocaust Cartoon competition.
X0pY6 TIL that Toronto's Yonge-University subway line carries over 670,000 people on an average weekday; which is nearly twice the total number of people who ride the 8 lines of the Chicago "L".
jNKnX TIL Disney's Space Mountain uses fans to blow air on you to create the illusion that you are going faster than you really are.
YpZbd TIL that the sovereign Kingdom of Hawai'i was never annexed by the US by treaty; it was overthrown by the US military in 1893, and, after some shifting of power structure, has subsequently been illegally militarily occupied as a US territory, and eventually as a state after a 1959 referendum vote.