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TIL that a group of American journalists formed a secret society ‘The Order of the Occult Hand’ whose only goal is to slip the meaningless phrase “It was as if an occult hand had…” past editors and into published articles

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epK5J TIL: The 6 Mitford sisters were a famous aristocratic family heavily involved in wildly different political scenes in the 1900s. Unity was a close friend of Hitler and visited him often, Diana married the leader of British Union of Fascists, Jessica joined the American Communist Party, etc.
lJmK TIL that Japan owns almost as much US debt as China does, but neither own as much as people believe.
4gRb TIL the development of the Disney animated film Wreck-it-Ralph started in the late 1980’s, spanning nearly three decades and four working titles.
yQlVv TIL J. Edgar Hoover recommended that Einstein be kept out of America by the Alien Exclusion Act, but he was overruled by the U.S. State Department. FBI spied on Einstein for 22 years and kept a dossier with 1400+ Pages on him.
NXrOM Today I learned that early versions of the periodic table included a material called didymium as an element. It was later discovered that didymium was actually an alloy of praseodymium and neodymium.