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TIL of the Metropolitan Sepulchre - A 19th century proposal to build a pyramid in London that would have covered 18 acres, had the capacity for 5 million bodies and at 94 stories and 1500 feet would have been taller than the Empire State Building!

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J1N8Q TIL the "Women in Refrigerators" trope, which refers to female characters in fiction being killed or seriously harmed to serve as plot devices to motivate male characters, is particularly prevalent in the MCU
e0Qv5 TIL that in 1973 a Mercedes-Benz 770 F-Cabriolet that was stated to be Hitler's parade limousine was sold for a then record of $153,000. A week later it was revealed to have belonged to Finnish President Carl Mannerheim, but this news was ignored, and the car broke the record again half a year later
WkLg4 TIL of an Idahoan student who made a science project about the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide (water). The project was so convincing it caused his fellow students to call for it to be banned. This was used as an argument against leading the public to false conclusions with the manipulation of facts.
5Yvyp TIL that no one is sure who wrote the original music to the song "Respect," most famously sung by Aretha Franklin. The original performer, Otis Redding, gets the sole songwriting credit, but he took the music and some of the lyrics from an artist who had copied it from another unknown guitarist.
Eygo TIL in WW2 German field marshal Erwin Rommel would often personally pilot a reconnaissance aircraft over the battle to view the situation. Although Rommel did not have a pilot’s license, his skill with machinery made him a competent pilot, and none of the Luftwaffe officers had the nerve to stop him