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TIL that Archaeologists has discovered a beautiful, huge, well-preserved stucco wall sculpture with its colors intact in Guatemala under a buried Mayan pyramid. The stucco frieze, measuring 30 feet long and 6 feet tall, is painted red, with details in blue, yellow and green.

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newMP TIL: Led Zeppelin's song "D'yer Mak'er" is a pun on "Jamaica" when pronounced with a Cockney accent. This was due to the song being reggae-influenced
e0ojk TIL that when Wayne Rogers left MAS*H, the producers tried to sue him for breach of contract. They discovered that Rogers had never actually signed his contract, having objected to a morals clause, and that he had been a free agent the entire time.
PY1pw "Snow leopards are relics of the ice ages, adapted to extreme cold, to blizzards and vertical slopes, and are rarely seen below 6,000 feet. Their pelts are smoky white with ashy rosettes. Their eyes, sliced by vertical feline pupils, are the color of hoar frost. Half of their six-foot-long bodies consists of a magnificent tail: a thick, furry balancing rod for a cat that can leap 30 feet through the air."
ZpaBo TIL it was illegal to own bulk gold in the United States from 1934-1964
XErNk TIL of Cpt. Burris, who during WWII got a 15,000 man German Panzer Corps to surrender to him and 2 men. The Americans were told to let the Russians make the final push into Berlin for political reasons. Instead Burris drove in with just a jeep and 2 men and convinced the German's it was over.