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

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KON0E TIL Clitoridectomies (surgical removal of the clitoris) were performed in the United States into the 1960s to treat, among other things, "lesbianism."
0MXL TIL Chili peppers are native only to the Americas. India and Thailand didn’t have spicy food before Columbus
jN1Ej TIL that Ernest “Boots” Thomas, one of the U.S. Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima, was able to enlist in spite of being color blind by memorizing the results of another man’s test.
jNDGE TIL although Wayne’s World (1992) was released after Freddie Mercury died, he got to see the car headbanging scene featuring Bohemian Rhapsody shortly before he passed away on November 24, 1991. He loved it and foresaw how the use of the song would ignite a comeback for Queen in the United States.
VB7KZ TIL the pretext for the eventual French invasion and conquest of Algeria was a French consul being struck on the face with a fan by the Dey of Algiers.