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TIL Karl Marx’s grave has an entry fee

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GYD67 TIL that Bob Barker, former host of The Price is Right, is 1/8 Native American and an official member of the Sioux Tribe
e07k6 TIL that many fire departments, including the San Francisco FD, still prefer wooden ladders because they are non-conductors of electricity, the best natural insulator against heat, and only burn on the outside while the centre of wood remains solid and strong.
OGMle TIL you can sail in a straight line from Great Britain to New Zeland
AD6wd TIL in 1913 Bulgaria went to war against its own allies from the First Balkans War, facing off against a combined strength double its own. Unsurprisingly, it failed.
JYvKm TIL about the Gordian Knot, a supposedly impossible knot to untie. An oracle declared that whomever opened the knot would become ruler of all Asia. Alexander the Great, unsuccessful at loosening the knot, simply sliced it in half with his sword, fulfilling the prophecy.