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TIL an ancient Mayan pyramid was torn down in 2013 and used for road fill!

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v8A4 TIL in 1968, two boys playing in a deserted and rat-infested tenement found the body of a 31yo drug addict, surrounded by religious pamphlets and empty beer bottles. Not until 19 months later was the body identified as that of child actor Bobby Driscoll, Academy Award winner and voice of Peter Pan
PYY7J TIL that “Charles Entertainment Cheese” is Chuck E. Cheese’s full name.
ANXjd TIL: about Exercise Tiger, a large scale practice run months before for the D-Day invasion. Friendly fire from communication errors and attacks from Nazi E-Boats resulted in the deaths of 749 men. Eisenhower ordered that all servicemen be sworn to secrecy and was publicly unknown until the 1980s
9YmRB TIL of four interwoven studies of smokers, found that sadness increases cravings, frequency of smoking, and volume of puffs, and also predicts smoking relapses, even decades later.
XVl6 TIL there is a Jules Verne novel called “Paris in the Twentieth Century”, which was written in 1863, set in 1960 and first published in 1994.