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TIL that there’s an entire subculture convinced that people shift around between “alternate realities” to explain why they remember things that didn’t happen.

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xY4k TIL the man who killed President McKinley, often dismissed as a mentally disturbed anarchist, did it in part due to US policies in the Philippines at the time, which though nearly forgotten today, resulted in the deaths of 200k-250k civilians and over 5,000 US troops
OoYVY TIL: in 2013, Miriam Margolyes, or Professor Sprout from Harry Potter, announced she 'was a dyke' during her Australian Citizenship ceremony in front of the Prime Minister, to gasps from the crowd.
MNP0 TIL The Ovitz family were a family of Dwarfs who survived imprisonment at the Auschwitz concentration camp. They were the largest family of dwarfs ever recorded and were the largest family to enter Auschwitz and to survive intact.
x66AB TIL a Sitting US Senator Was Killed During the Civil War While Commanding Troops
QJDm9 TIL of Christopher Langan, the "smartest man in the world" who broke the ceiling of the IQ scale when tested. He worked as a bouncer in Long Island for 20 years while developing his Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe about the relationship of reality and the mind