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TIL A small home in Cheyenne, Wyoming is home to 2,000+ shell companies.

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kOrp5 TIL Stirling Colgate, heir to the Colgate toothpaste family fortune, was a physicist who proposed the use of satellites for detection of nuclear weapons testing. He went on to conduct research that helped Chandrasekhar win a Nobel Prize after realizing that the satellites were detecting supernovae.
4K4N TIL Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson played Bigfoot in an episode of “America’s Book of Secrets” called “The Mystery of Bigfoot.” Will Ferrell was in it too.
9yj7 TIL Costco regularly relocates necessities like toiletries and light bulbs so the customer has to search for them. This forces shoppers to explore new areas of the store.
QJOyk TIL it took 4 people only 4 days to Replicated a typical 2.5 tonne Block of the Great Pyramid, using the same tools found in an abandoned ancient quarry (copper chisels, wooden mallets, etc.)
wL0P8 TIL British abstract artist & architect Victor Pasmore designed the brutalist Apollo Pavilion for the Sunny Blunts housing estate. It became heavily vandalised & was so hated by the residents that they campaigned & nearly succeeded in having it demolished. It is now protected as a listed monument.