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TIL that churches in Africa played a strong role in persecuting children in the name of witch hunting.

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5VJ48 TIL that in 1983 instead of taking Marvel to court for "hundreds of thousands of dollars" for plagiarizing his short story "Soldier from Tomorrow", Harlan Ellison settled w/ EIC Jim Shooter for a lifetime subscription to everything Marvel ever published.
67YZ TIL According to the first item on its list of ingredients, Goldfish snack crackers are made with “smiles.”
BdWx TIL Derek Kieper, an anti-seat belt law advocate, was killed in a car wreck because he wasn’t wearing his seat belt.
5Yy1r TIL that a majority of confederate monuments were erected decades after the South lost the Civil War
OoDrg TIL oral tradition in Kenya tells that 20 shipwrecked Chinese sailors washed up on shore in the 15th century and were given permission to settle and marry into local tribes. DNA tests conducted by China's government in 2002 on one of the supposed descendants and found that she was of Chinese descent