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TIL that in 1941 a group of free-thinkers gathered together in a cabin in the woods to perform a black magic ritual to kill Adolf Hitler - and they brought a photographer from LIFE Magazine with them to document it!

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jN5pv TIL Count Xavier Dupont de Ligonnès, the main suspect in the murder of his whole family (four kids, wife and the two family dogs), disappeared right after the family's body were found in 2011 and hasn't been seen ever since.
rN4xM TIL that in the 4th century CE, Roman bishop Acacius of Amida sold the all church's treasures to free 7000 Persian prisoners captured by the Romans during war. The Persian emperor was so impressed by the act that he ordered an end to Christian persecution throughout his empire.
7rkEM TIL that the massive velocity of the Paris Gun used in 1918 meant that each shell fired had a larger diameter than the previous or the gun would blow up. The shells were numerically ordered by size from the factory to make sure you fired the right one.
p8Ro4 TIL one of the only reasons the world got Mark Hamill's masterful performance as Luke Skywalker is because Robert Englund (of Freddy Krueger fame) happened to see auditions for A New Hope taking place and suggested to Hamill that he should audition, believing him to be perfect for the role
Ne8 TIL that it took longer than usual to measure Bob Beamon’s World Record Long Jump leap in 1968 as it was beyond the limit of the measuring equipment.