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TIL Zoroastrianism, A religion that has existed for over 4000 years still exists today

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dyy7 TIL that the majority of Americans of African descent are actually White and not Black
e07Zb TIL that in 1856, an Indian surveyor calculated the peak of Mount Everest to be exactly 29,000 ft. Fearing that nobody would believe that this was the exact height and nothing more than an estimate, he publicly declared the height to be 29,002 ft.
4kerw TIL of Law Lords. Formally known as Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, they were members of the House of Lords acting as judges for the chamber's judicial functions as it was the UK's court of last resort for over 200 years, until the creation of the UK Supreme Court in 2009.
GAnR1 TIL the University of Kansas (KU) allowed men and women to enroll equally since its founding in 1866, one of the first public education institutions in the US to do so
N76P6 TIL Bill Murray closed his deal on Meatballs the day before it started shooting and routinely ignored the script. His first day, he improvised his way through a scene where he’s introducing all the counselors-in-training – he showed up, read the pages and threw them away, saying, “I got this.”