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

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OoO0g TIL of Marthanda Varma, the ruler of Travancore who battled and won against the Dutch East India Company in 1741. The Dutch never recovered from the defeat and no longer posed a large colonial threat to India.
ADZjo TIL the Yugoslav frigate Split is the only ship in the world which shelled the city it is named after
b9Na0 TIL that Edvard Munch's famous painting "The Scream" was painted on cardboard
0aop TIL Albert Pierrepoint, the mose efficient executioner in British history who killed over 400 people, said: “All the men and women whom I have faced at that final moment convince me that in what I have done I have not prevented a single murder.” He went on to own a pub.
PnGL TIL in the 18th century it was fashionable in England for the wealthy to hire people to live in their gardens as “ornamental hermits”