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TIL that in 2007, a teenager was arrested after sending an email describing his arsenal of weapons and desire to “kill in the name of our unholy lord Satan” to Peter Gilmore, high priest of the Church of Satan, whom then alerted the FBI.

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N7Ya1 TIL the UK almost transitioned away from a first-past-the-post voting system to an alternative voting system in 2011
ZalG TIL That Oscar Wilde’s reputed last words were, “Either that wallpaper goes, or I do.”
6E0am TIL the summit of Mount Everest is the parent peak of Aconcagua in Argentina at a distance of 17,755 km (11,032 miles)
epDNn TIL that one of the closest times mankind has been to nuclear war was in the 1950s when, among other things, US intelligence received reports of an identified flying object over Turkey- which was later identified as a wedge of swans
oBEMo TIL that in 408BC an actor named Hegelochus mispronounced a word and, instead of saying "after the storm I see again a calm sea," accidentally said "after the storm I see again a weasel." This mistake was so mocked by other Ancient Greeks that over two millennia later we still know his name.