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TIL Blackbeard was only an active pirate for two years

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ANmXx TIL that the phrase immaculate conception does not refer to Jesus but his mother Mary who Catholics believe was also born free of original sin.
6Ek0X TIL: Cats rival dogs on many tests of social smarts, but very few scientists have the patience to try and study them
mxWQE TIL of Sir Alexander Cuming, a Scottish nobleman who traveled to the southeast US based off a dream of his wife. He became chief of the Cherokee Nation, defrauded several colonists, and attempted to turn South Carolina into a new Jewish homeland. He later became an alchemist and died in a poorhouse
Y7BGd TIL Jurassic Park author Michael Crichton was taller than Michael Jordan.
mLdx TIL an employee of the Kodak Camera Company discovered in the 40s that there must have been some sort of nuclear test on United States mainland. Realizing the importance of his discovery, he kept his findings a secret until 1949.