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TIL There are More Pyramids in Sudan, than there are in Modern Egypt

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Eg8Ox TIL about the Merci Train - a collection of 49 boxcars sent by France to the United States in response to humanitarian aid provided after World War II. Each state barring Alaska got their own, and 43 still survive today.
WkXkY TIL that "Cracklin Rosie" is actually a bottle of wine. Neil Diamond got the idea for the song from an old folk story about an Indian tribe with more men than women. The guys who didn't have girls would spend time with the bottle.
4oA6 TIL of a condition opposite of Paranoia called Pronoia causing the suspicion that everyone is conspiring to help you.
Gyj1 TIL that parts of Cameroon use beer bottle caps as currency - just like the videogame Fallout.
wJwo TIL that the colony of Georgia was founded with four prohibitions: no Catholics, no liquor, no lawyers, no slaves.