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TIL In 1869 Cyrus Teed claimed to have been visited by a spirit telling him he was the Messiah after shocking himself. He then took on the name "Koresh" and created a religious commune for followers of "Koreshanity" in a small Florida town which was supposed to become "new Jerusalem".

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e0VA6 TIL that Eddie Vedder wrote the song "Jeremy" because he thought it was important to give meaning to the actions of Jeremy Wade Delle, a high school student who shot himself in front of his English class in 1991.
l701a TIL of the Schöningen Spears, ten intact wooden spears discovered in a German mine between 1994-99. Strikingly similar to modern competition javelins, the 400,000 year old spears are the oldest worked wooden weapons ever found, and suggest early hominids used very sophisticated hunting techniques.
wX0P TIL that a woman, hired by Dyncorp to crackdown on forced prostitution on behalf of the UN, discovered that the UN police were the main perpetrators of forced prostitution and was later fired.
D1obP TIL Chitetsu Watanabe is the oldest living male in the world. Born in March 5, 1907, he is now 112 years old.
x6LjB TIL Bobby Farrell from Boney M died on the same date and same city as Grigori Rasputin, subject of one of the band's biggest hits