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

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nnYb TIL that Thankgiving and Hanukkah, which overlap this year, will not coincide again until the year 79811.
pKpG TIL of George Stinney, the youngest person ever executed in America, at 14. He was wrongly charged for murder after finding the bodies of two white girls in South Carolina.
0wwjN Are you racking up loans on unread books? There's a word for that.
LkxdV TIL the Louvre put up signs in Mandarin (and only in Mandarin), telling Chinese tourists not to shit on the floor. Tourist sites in Egypt face similar problems, as does Disneyland Shanghai
9odm TIL physicist Bernard Waldman witnessed the bombing of Hiroshima, as a camera operator on the observation aircraft. He was equipped with a special high-speed movie camera with six seconds of film to record the blast. Unfortunately, Waldman forgot to open the camera shutter, and no film was exposed.