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TIL about Cao Dai, a religion that combined the European spiritualist movement of the early twentieth century with indigenous Vietnamese beliefs, as well as details from other older religions. There are over 4 million members, but prosecution after the Vietnam War drove many into a global diaspora.

7p5X TIL that in the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the Tin Woodman is made of tin because his axe was cursed and one by one cut off all his limbs, head, and body. Each was replaced for him by a tinsmith.
8a1X8 TIL that Carrol Shelby who won at Le Mans, and portrayed in Ford vs Ferrari, had a heart transplant at age 67, and lived to 89.
ADeB4 TIL: The mother of Dmitri Mendeleev (creator of the Periodic Table) traveled 1200 miles with her son to a university in Moscow to plead for her son's admission, only to get rejected. The mother then rode with Mendeleev another 400 miles to Saint Petersburg University and got him admission.
6EmRm TIL in 1975 Otrag, a West-German company, developed cheap transport rockets. The USSR became nervous, and American corporations concerned about low-cost competitors. American media came to use crude Soviet propaganda to sabotage them, making Otrag evicted from their Congolese base (more in comments)
Oo051 TIL if a zombie outbreak is to ever hit the United States, Alaska would have a high human survival rate, due to several factors including fewest people per square mile, being 2nd highest of gun owners per capita, and 7th in percentage of the population that is physically active.