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TIL that for two thousand years the pyramids were the worlds tallest structures. Until Lincoln Cathederal

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DQvpP TIL that Australia has opened an underwater museum inside the Great Barrier Reef
5MjP TIL that Wisconsin’s only pirate once got the crew of an entire ship drunk then proceeded to throw them all over board. He then took the ship to Chicago and sold all the cargo.
WkGRN TIL that in the 1930s American travel writer Richard Halliburton discovered a remote mountain community in the Caucases that had descended from a lost band of German knights from the crusades.
x6LBk TIL that a town in Florida got the nickname “Nub City” in the 50s and 60s because the residents learned they could get insurance money by amputating their own limbs.
wk7J TIL the creator of Budweiser had a few drops of the beer placed on the tongues of every one of his newborn sons just hours after birth. They tasted Budweiser before their own mother’s milk.