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TIL Actors are referred as Thespians out of respect for Thespis, the first known actor in written plays.

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M7QMb TIL the oldest known Earth rock was not discovered on Earth, but was a meteorite found on the moon
pYeGZ TIL of the Dutch nurse Lucia de Berk, who was falsely convicted of killing 4 children under her care. She spent 6 years in jail before she was exonerated.
neNoW TIL the Han Dynasty was founded by a sheriff who was transporting convicts when several escaped. Knowing the punishment for this was death, he freed the rest and organized many into a rebel band, eventually going on to help overthrow the ruling Qin Dynasty and install himself as Emperor.
OGAJg TIL: During a very cold winter in the Little Ice Age (1658), the Swedish army under Charles X Gustav successfully marched across ice temporarily connecting the larger Danish islands including a 19 km crossing of the Storebælt (Great Belt).
gMMAL TIL That Russian criminal gang tattoos all have a meaning/purpose, such as Stalin across vital organs in the belief a firing squad would not shoot that image.