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TIL there is evidence of soldering in Mesopotamia

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XaB6 TIL the sixth tallest pyramid in the world is a Bass Pro Shops megastore in Memphis, Tennessee
Z8VjQ TIL that, according to Paul McCartney, after Micheal Jackson bought the rights to The Beatles catalog McCartney asked his friend Michael for a raise in royalties after 30+ years. To which Michael Jackson politely declined and said, "Oh Paul, that's just business."
MeGpW TIL Brazilians primarily spoke their native Tupi language up to the mid 18th century because Jesuit missionaries encouraged the natives to keep their mother tongue and enforced Europeans to learn it. However, in 1759 the Jesuits were expelled by the Prime Minister and Tupi quickly went extinct.
epjrE TIL that in deep mine voids, slabs of rocks weighing hundreds of pounds can spontaneously "explode" off the walls from the pressure above until the stresses adjust.
RVQ7 TIL that when Nazis came to a Jewish Nobel Laureate’s home, a fellow chemist hid his (and another laureate’s) gold medals by dissolving them in a beaker that the Nazis ignored, then years later he recovered the gold and had it recast back into the medals.