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TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza has 8 sides, not 4.

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VMNV4 TIL that some accounts of St. Christopher said he descended from a race of dog-people.
VMNY0 TIL that Enrico Fermi estimated the energy released by first atom bomb (Trinity test at Manhattan Project) by dropping small pieces of paper before, during, and after the passage of the blast wave and measuring their displacement. His estimate of 10 kilotons was pretty close to actual value of 21.
RBO4 TIL the 103rd floor of the Empire State Building was originally designed as a zepplin mooring station, complete with mooring mast, control tower room and passenger waiting room. Unforeseen currents caused by updraft from the building itself made it unusable, with only one zeppelin ever using it.
9YMKG TIL György Dózsa was executed extremelly cruelly. They made him sit on a heated iron throne and wear a heated iron crown. Then they made his rebel soldiers bite and eat his flesh while priests were singing songs.
GYJbG TIL of MLB player Lenny Dykstra who paid a team of private investigators $500,000 to dig up dirt on MLB umpires. He used the information to leverage a more favorable strike zone during games.