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TIL of Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian conscientious objector who told the Nazis that he would not fight for the evil side. He was executed.

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QOP6 TIL that Santa Claus was issued a pilot’s licence from the United States government in 1927
JRZk TIL the Occupy Movement has launched the Rollling Jubilee and is buying debt for pennies on the dollar and canceling it.
5YbBB TIL that Oxford University is so old that they don’t even know when exactly it was founded and that the earliest evidence of teaching there goes back to 1096.
8a0x4 TIL that Johnny Appleseed, of American folklore fame, may have been planting apples that were good for eating, but suitable for making hard cider from. He was basically going around planting apples to eventually turn into booze, and that is why he was so welcome wherever he went.
6EZ5X TIL: India is the home of 16 of the top 40 languages (# of native speakers). The number of languages listed for India is 418. Of those, 407 are living languages and 11 are extinct. Many of them have their own individual writing systems.