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TIL there’s a whole conspiracy theory about NASA hiding a “second sun”

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OoRQg TIL There is a wire called an eruv that hangs above Manhattan encircling much of the borough, acting as a symbolic boundary that turns the public streets into a private space, much like one's own home that allows Jewish people to move about freely without having to worry about breaking Jewish law.
JYgDB TIL Kurt Cobain admitted when he wrote Smells Like Teen Spirit he was trying to write the ultimate pop song. “I was basically trying to rip off the Pixies.”
78gLM TIL about The Horseman's Word, a secret society of British horse owners who claimed to practise secret invocations that could give them magical control over horses and women. Initiates would brandish knotted horse-hair and read passages from the Bible backwards before "shaking hands with the devil"
kJ9NE TIL that the IATA code for Sembach Airport, Germany is SEX
x6MRo TIL about Thomas Cranmer, a Catholic priest who helped lead the English Reformation under Henry VIII and Edward VI. He even secretly married in Germany before it was allowed. When Mary I took power, she reversed the reforms, branded him a heretic, and had him burned at the stake.