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TIL so many tools were made from Libyan sandstone in the stone age that it is enough for 84 million Great Pyramids of Giza, ~2 per square km of Africa.

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6EkkZ TIL The two most common recorders that beginners learn to play are soprano and alto. The majority of Baroque sonata literature for the "flute" was actually composed for the alto recorder
9ZLX TIL that not all bat houses are abandoned. These in Gainesville, Florida house 300,000 bats that eat 2.5 BILLION insects per night.
vPZ04 TIL that the longest hiccuping spree lasted 68 years. His name was Charles Osborne and he began hiccuping in 1922 and didn't stop until 1990. He had 20 to 40 hiccups per minute
M7e9b TIL the Kimuraya bakery is responsible for the invention of the red bean paste bun called "anpan" and it is considered to be the oldest Western style bakery in Japan. It was opened by Yasube Kimura who used to be a samurai and his son.
08bv TIL plants draw their carbon from the air, not the ground, meaning that after you die, even if you were buried in an urn full of tree seeds, most of you would never actually become a tree.