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TIL an indigenous empire called the Purépechas (Tarascan Empire) denied an alliance request from their rivals, the Aztecs, when Hernan Cortez first arrived in present-day Mexico City.

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kJWxm TIL Promissory Materialism is the belief that science will eventually prove the truth of materialism (i.e. the philosophical view that everything that exists is made up of matter or is dependent on physical processes) through discoveries that have not yet been made.
NRg8 TIL That the founder of Little Caesars Pizza paid for Rosa Parks’ rent so she could live in a safer area of Detroit from 1994 until her death.
0d0PM TIL k-pop phenomenon only happened because Jurassic Park. In early 90s, Korean Government officials issued a report for the president stating the movie revenue was almost equivalent of exporting 1.5 Million Hyundai cars. As a response, the government invested a lot of money in cultural industry.
dDQOd TIL that the Isles of Scilly (UK) and the Netherlands were allegedly in a state of war between 1651 and 1986, after the declaration by a Dutch Lieutenant-Admiral whose ships had been a victim of the Royalist fleet. No peace treaty was signed for 335 years, during which not a single shot was fired.
v6V8 TIL Saddam Hussein was awarded the key to the city of Detroit in the 1980s