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TIL Sudan had approximately 255 pyramids, twice the amount in ancient Egypt.

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D1A0r TIL that all mammals, from mice to whales, have roughly the same number of heartbeats in a lifetime: 1 billion.
8a8j4 TIL about the Bystander Effect, a psychological phenomena in which the more people present at an emergency, the less likely someone is to intervene
E1eQp TIL about the "Coolidge effect," male animals preferring to mate with new females. Pres. Coolidge and his wife visited a farm, & Mrs. Coolidge learning a rooster mated a dozen times a day, said "Tell Mr. Coolidge." Pres. Coolidge told the rooster had a new hen each time, said "Tell Mrs. Coolidge."
5QND TIL that during the filming of Titanic, an angry crew member put PCP in James Cameron’s soup, sending him and 50 others to the hospital
LkwgV Til that a male seahorse, who handles the pregnancy, can give birth to upto 2000 seahorse babies