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Today I learned, the origin of marbles is unknown.

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Oomd4 TIL about Thomas Aikenhead who, at 20 years of age, became the last person executed in Great Britain on a charge of blasphemy. Aikenhead was accused of referring to theology as "ill-invented nonsense" while conversing with friends at the University of Edinburgh.
ewBn TIL instead of The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien intended to write “A New Hobbit” about a Bilbo who had spent all his riches from The Hobbit and wanted to go on another adventure. Then Tolkien remembered the powers of the ring in the first book and decided to write about that instead.
k5b4 TIL: Black men make up 5% of population, 50% of murder convictions
gr74L TIL That women in the Etruscan society had a much higher social status than their counterparts in ancient Greece and Rome.
9wZpX TIL ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Star Mariska Hargitay (Olivia Benson) is the longest-running actor in a live-action primetime series. It’s a record that Hargitay continues to add to each year, as “Law & Order: SVU” surpasses the heights of its parent show “Law & Order.”