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TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza was once covered in highly polished white limestone, before it was removed to build mosques and fortresses.

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mK0O TIL the Nazis’ post war plans for the USSR consisted of killing over 100 million “racially inferior Slavs” by extermination through labor, starvation, and deportation while enslaving the remaining survivors as illiterate serfs on German plantations.
b9ma0 TIL that each strand of corn silk is attached to an individual corn kernel
V4AZ TIL Richard Kruspe, one of the members of the Band Rammstein, was an escapee from East Germany.
Z8yvG TIL hawk moths scare off bats by rubbing their genitalia to jam the bat’s sonar
mRXR TIL There’s an episode of Married with Children that Fox refused to air. The plot revolved around Al/Peg making a sex tape and Marcy/Steve making a sex tape. The episode was produced in 1988 but did not air for the first time until cable syndication in 2002. Even now, the reruns are heavily edited.