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TIL about the Roman Pyramid of Cestius, is 37m tall is one of the best-preserved ancient buildings in Rome.

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QNbML TIL that in 2008, an American football player called Chad Johnson decided to legally change his name to Chad Ochocinco, "eight five" in Spanish, because his jersey number was 85, only to legally change his name back to Chad Johnson 4 years later
VBA7B TIL that one of the main perpetrators of the Putumayo genocide escaped justice and continued to exploit the same tribes. Before the Putumayo border change in 1933, Miguel S. Loayza forced the migration of 6,719 natives in to Peru. More than half of them died. Loayza survived into his nineties.
4k40a Today I learned the the title for Aerosmith's song "Walk This Way" was taken from a Marty Feldman line in the movie Young Frankenstein.
VXp4 TIL Aristides de Sousa Mendes, the Portuguese consul in Bordeaux during World War II, defied a direct order from his own government and issued transit visas to as many as 30,000 refugees seeking to escape the Nazis
6XgW TIL Adolf Hitler was one of the first recorded users of Anabolic Steroids. It was later used on Nazi troops to make them more sexually agressive, muscular and mean fighters.