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TIL There is a conveyor belt that is 98km long in the Sahara Desert.

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7rjyP TIL after Einstein died in 1955, preserved slices of his brain were smuggled to the University of Kansas -- where as part of a hazing ritual, students would suck on bits from Einstein's brain while downing shots of cheap tequila.
OoOGa TIL one of the first functional digital home computers was the Digi-Comp I from 1963. It was entirely mechanical and used no electricity. It could output 3 binary digits and programmers used thin wires to set up primitive logic. With no power, the user had to pull a lever to perform each CPU cycle.
epZ76 TIL the U.S. military uses bees to find landmines
9wKlM TIL that only three objects have ever been found inside the Great Pyramid of Giza- pieces of wood, a ball made of diorite, and a copper hook. They were found in 1872 in a shaft leading from the Queen's Chamber.
x6EQ7 TIL that Arizona authorities recently conspired to deploy Zyklon B (the same hydrogen cyanide agent used to kill hundreds of thousands of Auschwitz prisoners) for executions