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TIL Pat Robertson and several others who incorrectly predicted various dates for the end of world were jointly awarded an Ig Nobel Prize for “teaching the world to be careful when making mathematical assumptions and calculations”

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6EE77 TIL about the Circassian Genocide, where about 1,500,000 Circassians were killed and hundreds of thousands were displaced by the Russian Empire in an attempt to make room for Russian colonization in Circassia.
R5e1l TIL a Puerto Rican customer claimed to have been poisoned when a snapper fish they bought and ate had a tongue eating louse inside it.The case, however, was dropped on the grounds that isopods are not poisonous to humans and some are even consumed as part of a regular diet.
R5wW7 TIL that in 1577 Spanish Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sagagún completed his Manuscript, The Florentine Codex, making it the most reliable source of information about Mexican culture, the Aztec Empire, and the conquest of Mexico.
5V8lD TIL that en route to Nagasaki to deliver Fat Man, on August 9, 1945, St Elmo's Fire appeared around the B-29 aircraft...the Bockscar experienced an uncanny luminous blue plasma form around the spinning propellers, "as though we were riding the whirlwind through space on a chariot of blue fire."
b6BpE TIL most so-Called “Medieval Torture Devices” are fake actually made up by hoaxers, showmen, and con artists in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries