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TIL that Spiro Mounds, a Native American "King Tut's Tomb", were ransacked, desecrated, and destroyed by a group of local treasure hunters in 1935, and is considered the worst looting of an archaeological site in US history.

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PN4w TIL a company developed a system for your home that when an earthquake is detected, a compressor will release an incredible amount of air underneath your house causing it float off it’s foundation
1aV7r TIL an army's "infantry" is so named because it originally denoted soldiers who were too young or inexperienced to be entrusted with a horse and be part of the cavalry.
gMevb TIL the board game Stratego was invented by a Dutch Jew for his two children during WW2. The family was eventually sent to a concentration camp but luckily survived.
6ExZ TIL in 1193, a Minaret Tower was built in the remote mountainous region of what’s now Afghanistan. Beautiful inscriptions on the side celebrates religious pluralism and what Christianity, Judaism and other religions have in common with Islam. Double-Helix stairs allowed it to survive over 800 years!
X9pE TIL in the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.