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TIL that the wheel has been around for more than 5000 years

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lZeG TIL that James Gunn wanted Chris Pratt for Guardians of the Galaxy so much he was willing to CGI a six pack on the actor
OGMoX TIL the French Aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle is one of the biggest individual producers of baguettes. Originally it could produce 1400 per day, but it was recently upgraded to now make over 2000!
woGeM TIL that the earliest known published collection of liturgical music in Hebrew was published exactly 400 years ago, in 1623, by Salamone Rossi, a Jewish musician at the court of Mantua, Italy, who was so well-thought of that he was excused from wearing the yellow badge required of Jews
OJ71 TIL In 1932 the US Public Health Service conducted a study involving roughly 400 African American men who had contracted syphilis. The men participated in exams meant to study the long term effects of untreated syphilis. They were never given proper treatment and the study continued for 40 years.
7rKn7 TIL that four bodies of members of the Romanov royal family of Imperial Russia, after execution in 1918, were buried at a Russian Orthodox site in Beijing, China, the 1920s. One of the two sites believed to hold the bodies, a cemetery, has since been made into a city park with a golf course.