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TIL of Dīn-i Ilāhī, a religion created by the Mughal emperor Akbar to settle religious disputes among his subjects. Only 19 people ever believed in it.

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4XDDX TIL- Ghyslain Raza, the "Star Wars Kid", had his video uploaded without permission. He left school due to depression, taking final exams in a psych unit, and sued the families of the uploaders. He later got his HS diploma, went to law school, and did a media tour speaking out against cyber-bullying.
8avY8 TIL in 2015, Forbes named entrepreneur/CEO Elizabeth Holmes the youngest self-made female billionaire in the world. Then in 2016, allegations of fraud collapsed her company's valuation, rendering her stock worthless and reducing her net worth to zero.
778r TIL China & Nepal disagreed over the height of Mount Everest. Nepal wanted to include the height of the snow on the summit, and China only wanted to state the height of the rock. They argued for 5 years. It was a 4m difference.
wLAaP TIL that a protein called Hemo occurs in foetuses that is not produced by the mother, but a gene originating from a virus that infected our ancestors over 100 million years ago.
VBQ90 TIL That Ball Corp, famous for it's mason jars, is the world's largest producer of aluminum beverage cans, producing over 112 billion cans per year.