TIL that Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth – even more than Egypt. There are at least 223 pyramids in the Sudanese cities of Al Kurru, Nuri, Gebel Barkal and Meroë. They are generally 20 to 30 metres high and steep sided.
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TIL that Sudan has more pyramids than any other country on earth –...
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TIL that it is illegal to trade onion futures in the United States due to the 1958 Onion Futures Act, after two traders in 1955 purchased 98% of the onions in Chicago and subsequently crashed onion prices while holding short positions on onion futures.
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Onion Futures Act
1958 United States law
TIL after the murder of his father, Genghis Khan went into poverty, even being enslaved at one point. It wasn’t until he was in his 50’s did he rise to power and become the Khan of Mongolia
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Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan (born Temüjin,c. 1158 – August 18, 1227), was the founder and first Great Khan (Emperor) of the Mongol Empire, which became the largest contiguous empire in history after his death. He came to power by uniting many of the nomadic tribes of Northeast…
TIL Muhammad Ali was named after Cassius Marcellus Clay, an ardent abolitionist who emancipated the 40 slaves he inherited from his father. Clay edited an anti-slavery newspaper, commanded troops in the Mexican-American War and served as minister to Russia under Abraham Lincoln.
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Muhammad Ali originally named for ardent abolitionist and Yale
When heavyweight boxing champion Cassius Clay changed his name to Muhammad Ali after converting to Islam, he stated that his birth name was “a slave name,” adding, “I didn’t choose it and I don’t
TIL Paula Abdul constantly talks about surviving a plane crash of which no record exist.
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Submitted January 30, 2021 at 03:30AM by cottagecow
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TIL Great Olympic Friendships, the friends who wouldn’t be divided by their medals. Japanese pole vaulters who tied for second place refused to compete for tie-breakers. They cut their medals in half and joined them to be half-silver, half-bronze medal
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TIL only 128 people in the United States are licensed to fly blimps
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Reader's Digest
Here’s Why You Don’t See Blimps Anymore
You still see planes and jets in the sky, but a blimp is a rare sighting these days.
TIL the state of Arizona has a "stupid motorist law"; it allows the state to fine any motorists for their rescue in the event that they drive around barricades and get stuck in flooded motorways in the process
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Monsoon 101: What is the ‘Stupid Motorist Law’?
What is this law and how did it get its nickname?
TIL That there was a Lego MMO that was cancelled because inappropriate players kept creating penis' and despite the team's best efforts, their software was unable to keep up with the detection of them.
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Cancelled Lego MMO's biggest problem was a penis filter
You think you have problems? Try coding a universal penis detector, then we'll talk.
TIL all US military rations come with a packet of Tabasco sauce, which was introduced by CEO Walter Mcilhenny, a former general in the military during WWII
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TIL not only do bats make high-pitched sounds for echolocation, many bat species also sing. A team of scientists that analyzed one species’ song translated it as a sequence that opens with a hello, then a gender identification, then some geographic information, & then a "let's talk" section.
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TIL N.Rothschild had early info that Napoleon lost at Waterloo, and used that info at the London stock exchange: instead of buying, he sold shares en masse, making people think that Napoleon had won and plummeting the stocks. At the last minute he started buying at low prices, thus making a fortune
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TIL of Rhea Clyman, a Jewish Canadian Journalist who travelled to the Soviet Union and made reports on the Siberian labor camps and the Holodomor. This led to her deportation in 1933 after which she reported on Nazi Germany until 1938 when she was forced to flee due to growing anti Semitism.
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Rhea Clyman
Canadian journalist
TIL Babylonians were using a rudimentary form of calculus to calculate Jupiter’s displacement each day along the ecliptic, the path that the sun appears to trace through the stars. Historians had thought such techniques did not emerge until more than 1400 years later, in 14th century Europe.
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TIL when Jerry Lewis taught film directing at USC in the late ‘60s, George Lucas was one of his students and Steven Spielberg audited some of his classes. Lewis later screened Spielberg's short film Amblin' (1968) and told his students, "That's what filmmaking is all about."
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TIL That children from Roosevelt's family would crawl through the space between ceilings and floors in the White House, where no living being but rats and ferrets had been for years.
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The Roosevelts Move Into the White House, 1901
An eyewitness account of the Roosevelt's in the White House
TIL that instead of donating money to Food Bank for New York City, the country’s largest anti-hunger charity, Toyota offered to improve the efficiency of the food bank. Toyota engineers helped reduce the wait time for dinner from 90 minutes to 18, by revolutionizing the way the Food Bank operated.
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TIL George Foreman has earned substantially more from the George Foreman Grill than he ever did from his boxing career. At the peak of sales he earned $4.5 million a month in payouts. In 1999, he was paid $138 million for the full rights to use his name.
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TIL George Foreman has earned substantially more from the George...
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TIL in 2018 an Oregon man stole a car in front of deputies and led them on a 40-mile chase. When he got arrested, he explained that he had taken LSD and thought he was living a real-life version of Grand Theft Auto.
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TIL that since 1868 over 200 anti-lynching bills have been introduced to the US Congress. None of them have passed both houses.
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Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill
American bill intended to prevent lynching
TIL Weird Al Yankovic had asked permission from Prince to parody his songs on numerous occasions, and has always been refused. When the two were assigned to sit in the same row at an award's show, he got a telegram from Prince's lawyers demanding he not make eye contact
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TIL Weird Al Yankovic had asked permission from Prince to parody...
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