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TIL that building the Great Pyramid only required about 1 to 2 % of Ancient Egypt’s GDP-equivalent, according to leading Egyptologists. Despite its size, it barely strained the Old Kingdom economy, which had a huge agricultural surplus.

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d8VQ8 TIL Barnum and Bailey’s circus was so logistically efficient that prior to WWI the U.S. War Department would periodically send army officers to travel with them and study their transportation methods in order to improve the logistics of the army’s own artillery service (Davis, 2003, p. 78).
vN4D TIL that the Earth likely has an underground ocean between the upper and lower mantle, with as much water as all the outer oceans combined
m1eOO TIL the movies Kalifornia and Natural Born Killers were both inspired by spree killer(s) Charles Starkweather and his teenage girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate. Juliette Lewis played her in both films.
gv7W TIL Alanis Morissette’s “Head Over Feet” is credited with the creation of the term “friends with benefits”
JYrbB TIL that Toyota once made military trucks for the Japanese Imperial Army.