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TIL the brightest star in the nighttime sky, Sirius, was important to both Egyptians and Polynesians, serving as a predictor of the Nile’s upcoming flood season and a key point for navigating the South Pacific islands

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5YOaD TIL the first photograph to include a human being was almost an accident. Because the image required a long exposure, all the people, carriages, and other moving things disappeared from the scene -- except the the man who happened to stay still during the shot, getting his shoes shined.
kOrXW TIL The Soviet Union had the goal of eliminating religion from inside the state and wanted to create a state of atheism. In the first five years of Soviet power they executed around 1230 orthodox bishops and priests to try and quell the control the religion had on the people.
aw5bN TIL the United Kingdom's 2021 national census was the first census where British people whose way of life or cultural heritage stemming from travelling fairs and circuses were able to register "SHOWMAN" as both an occupation and an ethnicity
yQdKa TIL that the residents of Chernobyl had a new city built for them by workers from 8 former Soviet republics. The city has a range of different architectural styles such as pink stoned Armenian buildings and wooden Baltic-style houses. City districts are named after a city from each republic.
xkD TIL That sling bullets dating from 4th century B.C. have been found with the words “take that” inscribed on them