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TIL about Inedia, aka Breatharianism, which is the belief that human beings can survive without food or water and sustain themselves with sunlight and "prana".

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VB0 TIL in the 1931 movie, Frankenstein, the line “Now I know what it feels like to be God!” following “It’s alive! It’s alive!” was censored by audio of a clap of thunder because it was considered blasphemous and was only just restored in 1999, nearly 70 years later.
ZYlQ TIL the “holes” in Swiss cheese are made by the same bacterium responsible for body odor
pa7A TIL that Israel attempted to bomb American and British civilians in Egypt and blame it on the Muslim Brotherhood in order to destabilize and occupy the country. Israel denied the entire affair for 51 years, but then awarded the Israeli participants in 2005.
16MpP TIL the movie 'Cape Fear' was originally developed by Steven Spielberg, but he eventually decided it was too violent and traded it to Martin Scorsese in exchange for 'Schindler's List', which Scorsese had decided not to make.
KOKmE TIL The first high-level programming language known as Address was created by a Ukrainian Kateryna Yushchenko. It was more advanced than Fortran, Cobol, Algol which appeared couple years later