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TIL the 10th largest pyramid in the world is a bass pro shops.

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e0oR6 TIL Kit Kats in Japan are associated with the phrase Kitto Katsu (きっと勝つ), translated as "You will surely win", and thus a good luck charm for students
j6pgj TIL Strapped for cash, the Shah of Persia once agreed to sell effectively his country's entire infrastructure to Paul Reuter(founder of Reuter's). Deemed "the most complete surrender of the entire industrial resources of a kingdom ever", it was rejected by the british, who found it too excessive
R5oml TIL that in a recent study - microplastics were discovered in every human placenta and arteries tested
16n07 TIL that a school principal once made a student who'd gotten into trouble sit in the basement & read the U.S. Constitution as punishment. That student (who committed the Constitution to memory as a result) was Thurgood Marshall, who went on to become the first Black Supreme Court justice.
0wXA5 TIL about a set of twins that reunited after 37 years in 1979. Both were named Jim by their adoptive parents, loved carpentry and math, and pursued careers in security. Even stranger, they had each married a woman named Linda and then remarried a woman named Betty.