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TIL A hiker was lost on a mountain for 24 hours and ignored calls, texts, and voicemail messages from rescuer teams because he didn’t recognize the phone number.

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P1bjE TIL about the Roman soldier named Pantera. In Celsus' book "The True Word", Jesus was depicted as the result of an affair between his mother Mary and this soldier. Both the ancient Talmud and medieval Jewish writings reinforced this notion by referring to Jesus as "Jesus, son of Pantera"
XEle8 TIL: Some apartments in Hong Kong are so small they are called "coffin homes". They are so small that the UN called it an "insult to human dignity" with some being around 15 square feet".
gMYMD TIL legendary composer Danny Elfman, behind such classics as the Simpsons theme song as well as the Nightmare before Christmas soundtrack, also wrote the song "Little Girls", also known as the Pedobear Song.
NX8lE TIL Saddam Hussein once wrote a medieval romance novel called Zabibah and the King. It was a thinly disguised allegory which represented the events of the first Gulf War in 1991. It was a bestseller in Iraq and is said to have inspired the Sacha Baron Cohen comedy “The Dictator”
QNbEe TIL that, after having received spam from "predatory" academic journals fishing for publication fees, students from NYU and UCLA retaliated with a submission of their own. The paper, named "Get me off Your Fucking Mailing List," contained text, diagrams, and graphs repeating the title for 10 pages.