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TIL Colonists in pre-Revolutionary America celebrated Guy Fawkes Night by burning effigies of the Pope...it was called Pope Night

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R501l TIL that there's a conspiracy theory that the US invaded Iraq due to Iraq having a stargate and being in contact with aliens
EgdxV TIL surveillance in video games enables detailed profiling of the people playing the game, with some games collecting more behavioral data than social media platforms. Researchers warn of significant risks to consumer privacy.
loLl7 TIL Hawaii's is the only state in the US that still have McDonald's deep fried apple pie. McDonald's Hawaii outsell their mainland counterparts in Apple Pies and they also have taro pie and haupia (coconut) pie.
69k8 TIL prescription drug bottles are translucent orange to resemble old amber glass bottles that were common in apothecaries.
Xyjk TIL of The Stoned Ape Theory, which is a controversial theory from Terence McKenna which states that a lot of our advanced human evolution came as a result of the ingestion of psilocybin mushrooms, also known as magic mushrooms by our primate ancestors.