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TIL There is a wikipedia article dedicated to people who have claimed to be Jesus

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P1enn TIL A healthy person's average sleep latency (the amount of time it takes to transition from wakefulness to sleep) is only between 10 and 20 minutes.
9YowQ TIL that an optical illusion caused due to super light refraction may have prevented the Titanic from spotting the iceberg in time and also the closest freighter SS Californian from identifying the ocean liner when it was sinking
NnZP TIL guards at New Mexico State Penitentiary had a “snitch game”. They would label inmates as snitches, let them be abused, and wait for them to turn into informants to escape their tormentors.
X0jDP TIL: FDR's grandfather made his fortune snuggling opium into China; igniting the first war with European powers when the Emperor tried to enforce drug laws.
MenK8 TIL of Leonarda Emilia, a 19th Century Mexican bandit. After her lover was sentenced to death, she became an outlaw and took the name La Carambada, meaning "The Amazing Lady." After robbing men she would flash them, so they felt ashamed at being bested by a woman.