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TIL Christopher Columbus used a lunar eclipse in 1504 to deceive Jamaican natives into providing supplies, claiming it was a sign of divine anger. The frightened natives complied, unaware of the eclipse's natural cause.

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eolE TIL that In 1965, a four-year-old nearly drowned at a beach, but was rescued by a woman named Alice Blaise. 9 years later, that boy saved a man at the same beach. That man was Alice’s husband.
LMwv TIL that it would take a stack of 375,000 lego bricks (2x2) to cause the bottom brick to collapse, which represents a stack 3,591 meters in height.
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