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TIL the Great Pyramid of Giza is not a square pyramid. The base of the pyramid is actually a concave octagon, thus making it an eight faced pyramid.

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KOnr9 TIL about Project Azorian. In 1974 the CIA built a gigantic claw and lowered it three miles to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to snag the entire wreck of a sunken Soviet submarine. And they partially succeeded.
NOJE TIL that in the late 80s the Dalai Lama said people might be reincarnated as AI; “I can’t totally rule out the possibility that, if all the external conditions and the karmic action were there, a stream of consciousness might actually enter into a computer.”
OGZkL TIL That approximately 460,000 children go missing every year in the USA.
QNkgX TIL Olympia, Washington's Chinatown was once known as "Locke Town" as Chinese residents were predominantly from the Lok family villages in southern China. WA governor Gary Locke's grandfather settled in Olympia as a teenager from China in 1890. There is no more Chinatown in Olympia
78Anb TIL about the El Cid Castle, an abandoned castle-like building in Phoenix, Arizona that was supposed to be a bowling alley but it took 20 years to complete and closed a year after it was opened after the owner was arrested for diversion of Medicare funds, that made him go bankrupt.