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TIL that sanitary pads can take 500-800 years to decompose in landfills.

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Y75ar TIL: All three Lord of the Rings movies were shot at the same time.
wYb1 TIL the Grateful Dead provided funding for the Lithuanian national basketball team for the 1992 Olympics since the squad could not afford to participate. They wore tie-died jerseys during games and donned full Dead regalia during the medal ceremony for winning 3rd place.
W7x6o TIL the classic comedy “Airplane” was actually a joked up shot-for-shot remake of an earlier drama called “Zero Hour”
rNwY0 TIL fixed position street lights were first used around 500BC Beijing, using bamboo and naturally-occurring gas vents
PYAdG TIL the Great Pyramid at Giza is the oldest of the Seven Wonders and the only one still standing today. The Colossus of Rhodes, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, the Temple of Artemis, the Statue of Zeus were destroyed. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon is still unknown.