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TIL Jains believe their religion began with a man who lived in India 592 quintillion years ago

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E1pZX TIL when Pope John Paul II delivered a speech to the European Parliament, Ian Paisley shouted "I denounce you as the antichrist!" The former crown prince of Austria-Hungary, 77-year-old Otto von Habsburg, punched him in the face and pushed him out of the chamber.
9wkl6 TIL that while typing on your mobile phone you can slide on the space bar to move the cursor.
QA9d TIL: A chimpanzee, which was raised as a human being, by a psychologist. Learnt sign language, dressed herself and ate with silverware, was shipped away to assimilate in wild, expressed “hurt” via. sign, and later died.
OP44 TIL in 2005, during a Muslim Pilgrimage in Baghdad, one man pointed to another and accused him of carrying explosives. 953 People died in the resulting stampede.
9Y5LG TIL that American and Russian astronauts onboard the International Space Station (ISS) have different water supplies. Its because the Americans drink recycled urine while the Russians refuse to do so. The NASA astronauts even collect the Russians urine to increase their own supply...