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TIL that the Tallest Building in Belize is a 9th Century Mayan Temple

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nWgB TIL The Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that the Earth is a self-regulating organism, was partially developed by Lynn Margulis, a.k.a. Carl Sagan’s wife.
x68G1 TIL that there exists real footage of one of the most unethical psychological experiments. Its the conformity experiment from Stanley Milgram and was conducted after the atrocities of WW2. It shows a real participant truly believing that he's conforming to killing another subject.
Y7grZ TIL After his Apollo moon landing, Charlie Duke experienced marriage troubles. Duke and his wife underwent a religious conversion, leading to their creationist belief that everything in the universe was created by a God
berZ TIL that it was Richard Nixon who unilaterally ordered the discontinuation of the United States’ biological and chemical weapons programs.
wLb67 TIL the Tyropean Valley was a natural feature and commercial district running centrally through ancient Jerusalem. The name translates to “Valley of the Cheesemakers”