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TIL The Original Illuminati was an Enlightenment-era secret society in Bavaria created on May 1st 1776, The society’s goals were to oppose superstition, prejudice, religious influence over public life and abuses of state power, and to support women’s education and gender equality.

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8mya TIL every year thousands of Great White Sharks congregate in a remote area of the Pacific Ocean. No one knows why.
7DOr TIL that once your GPS unit realizes it is traveling faster than 1200mph (1900kmph) at an altitude higher than 60,000ft (18,000m), it will automatically shut itself down in fear that it is being used in an intercontinental ballistic missile-like application.
78Ewr TIL In 1936, Just before the Olympic competitions being held in Berlin,founder of Adidas athletic shoe company Adi Dassler visited Jesse Owens in the Olympic village and persuaded Owens to wear Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik shoes;this was the first sponsorship for a male African American athlete.
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