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TIL Egypt is building a new city as a replacement for Cairo.The city will include a park 6 times bigger than New York's Central Park

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LQgYp TIL that Celine Dion once refused an award (Anglophone Artist of the Year)
V7D0 TIL Mexican vaqueros used to sport hatbands called “galóns” on their sombreros. A “10 galón” was a hat large enough to hold 10 hatbands. It is believed that American cowboys may have anglicized the word “galón” and thus, started referring to their own sombrero-inspired headgear as “10-gallon hats.”
eKNJ TIL Sylvester Stallone broke his neck while filming a fight scene for The Expendables, which required the insertion of a metal plate
geGX TIL the American Army during WWI employed champion Skeet Shooters to protect the trenches by shooting enemy grenades out of midair and deflecting them
yVjNe TIL about the artist August Natterer, who suffered from Schizophrenia, On 1 April 1907, he had a hallucination of the Last Judgment, in which he saw "10,000 images [flash by] in half an hour." He then spent his life creating art from the images he saw, under the pseudonym 'Neter'.