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TIL that only in 2012, Johannes Kepler, one of the founders of modern astronomy and modern science in general, was cleared from being a suspect in the possible murder of Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, who employed him as an assistant at the time of his death.

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R7jAj TIL John Wilkes Booth was surprised to find little public sympathy after his assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Formerly anti-Lincoln newspapers condemned the act and while some Southerns were happy Lincoln was dead others feared it would spur retribution upon the already defeated Confederate states.
oaRL TIL the sewers of Bucharest are populated by thousands of children who moved there when orphanages were closed following the fall of Communism. Drug use, tuberculosis, and HIV are rampant, and their king is a man named Bruce Lee.
ylw TIL that followers of Native American Church can legally use, transport and possess peyote.
ngK7 TIL: The only non-music youtube video to reach a billion views is an episode from the Russian cartoon Martha and the Bear.
nERb TIL The Asylum, creators of “mockbusters” such as Sharknado, Titanic II, and Transmorphers, has never lost money on a film