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TIL Wikipedia had an entry with a list of proven conspiracy theories. They have deleted it and automatically delete all attempts at making new one. Here is an archive of the deleted list.

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b91A4 TIL a baby born while a war is going on is more likely to be male
m0EM TIL when Jai Singh, Maharaja of a princely state of India, visited the Rolls-Royce showroom in London, he was affronted when the salesman implied that he couldn’t afford to purchase the car. He purchased ten, shipped them to India, and ordered to use them for collecting and transporting garbage.
1a6n8 The massive Tambora eruption of 1815 cooled the Earth so much that Europe suffered the “year without summer,” leading to extreme food shortages.
GZMg TIL Bob Dylan introduced The Beatles to weed
rR9j1 TIL It takes 40 gallons of tree sap to make 1 gallon of maple syrup.