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TIL of 'Heaven's Gate' (religious group), who had participated in a mass suicide of 39 of its members (a coordinated series of ritual suicides) in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.

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6E06m TIL Hitler loved Irish folk music. When Sean Dempsey came to play for him in 1936 there was no room for him to sit, which he needed to play. Hitler jumped up and ordered an S.S. member get down on his hands and knees and that Dempsey sit astride him while he played.
Ld5V TIL that as a consequence of HIV/AIDS, life expectancy in Swaziland has fallen from 61 years in 2000 to 32 years in 2009.
W7dL8 TIL Bartolomeo Cristofori (May 4, 1655 – January 27, 1731) invented the piano.
e0LJ5 TIL if you survived Thanos' Snap you immediately would have lost 1-3 pounds in bacteria biomass.
nWK9B TIL cats aren’t born with the instinct to kill for food or eat their catch. Mother cats have to show them.