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TIL in 1877 Egyptian Government gifted a gigantic 3500 year old obelisk to the US and it took teams of engineers years to remove, ship, transport over land, and erect in Central Park

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Qbxk TIL that DJ Khaled used to go by the name ‘Arab Attack’, but decided to change it after 9/11.
jPWj TIL the brain releases so much dopamine during orgasms that a brain scan resembles that of someone on heroin.
XND TIL that a Buddha statuette from India was found in Sweden at an excavation of a Viking village
p8jPA TIL of Marcario Garcia, a Mexican national in the US Army who received the Medal of Honor in World War II. A month later a restaurant owner in Texas denied him service, beat him with a bat, and eventually filed charges against Marcario.
LZD0 TIL that around half of the USA’s nuclear arsenal is inside of 14 submarines.