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TIL In 2000, when several planets happened to be close to one another, astrologers predicted that there would be catastrophes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves. This caused an entire sea-side village to panic and abandon their houses. Nothing predicted happened and their houses were burgled

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NXGoQ TIL of the disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi, a 15 year old Vatican teenager who disappeared while returning home from a flute lesson in Rome on 22nd June 1983. In January 2023, Vatican City opened an official investigation for the first time ever on the request of Pope Francis.
46d6 TIL Isaac Newton stuck a needle in his eye, placing pressure on the eyeball, to study the human eye as a lens and how it perceives color.
Bj0D TIL that Queen Elizabeth I had a vast spy network and one of her spies signed his reports with “007.” This was later used by Ian Fleming, writer of James Bond.
mYPR TIL That a chinese food scandal resulted in some pork glowing blue in darkness. The meat still edible, and was soon dubbed “avatar-meat”
v1pQr TIL of "hunger stones": the Central European practice of marking river levels with carved stones during droughts, to warn future generations that there will be a famine if the water level again gets low enough to see the carving. This has been done at least since 1115, and as recently as 2018.