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TIL that prior to converting to Islam, Bosnians practiced a unique form of Christianity that was considered heretical by both the Catholic and Orthodox church.

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neWY9 TIL that the population of the Czech Republic has traditionally been irreligious for a very long time. Ever since the 1600's, the Czech people have been described as "tolerant and even indifferent towards religion".
e0BM6 TIL Tippi Hedren was traumatized while filming Hitchcock’s The Birds. He told her mechanical birds were to be used during the famous bedroom scene. Instead she endured 5 days of prop men flinging dozens of live gulls, ravens and crows at her. One of the birds gouged her cheek and just missed her eye
dDKyd TIL there's an Irish Pub at base camp Mt. Everest that's dubbed the "highest and most remote Irish pub in the world"
Dd1r TIL of all corn grown in the US, only 1% is actually sold as corn for human consumption
0b1v TIL: We don’t actually know who named Earth.