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TIL the English invented the myth that carrots make you see better as propaganda during WWII to help conceal their nighttime vision secret weapon (radar)

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m64x TIL The Catholic Church believes Jesus won’t allow Transubstantiation of gluten free bread because it lacks wheat.
KXd4 TIL That Salvador Dali and Walt Disney Collaborated and Made An Animation Together
pYRYA TIL about the Muammar Gaddafi International Prize for Human Rights, which was created by the eponymous dictator to “bestow tribute upon symbolic figures of struggle and faith in the values of freedom to all humans”. The first recipient was Nelson Mandela.
65kY TIL in 1992, a Lawyer and a Judge were looking for files on a former prisoner in a police station near Paraguay. Instead, they stumbled upon archives documenting an international conspiracy involving the torture, murder, and imprisonment of 480,000 people, now known as the Archives of Terror.
OJY1 TIL that the poles used by strippers rotate and that’s why the girls can do such crazy spins.