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TIL Most archaeologists now agree the Orion Correlation Theory — the idea that the pyramids specifically aligned with the three stars of Orion's Belt some 10,000 years ago — is a fringe idea.

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7rkK7 TIL the Romans had a sacrificial "door to the underworld" in modern day Turkey where animals would appear to mystically drop dead. The eunuch priests that brought them there were left unscathed because they stood above the lethal cloud of carbon dioxide gas.
GAlJ7 TIL Kate Bush was the first artist to use a wireless microphone headset (first made with just a clothing hanger) which let her dance as she sang!
NXbkQ TIL the snow in the wizard of oz was pure asbestos.
N9KP TIL that cats have contributed to the extinction of 32 species
7r7yb TIL Kokomo is not a real place, the Beach Boys made it up. The song was created for the 1988 Tom Cruise film Cocktail