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TIL the infamous radio broadcast “War of the Worlds” actually did not cause mass hysteria throughout the U.S., and when surveyed, only 2% of people claimed they were listening to the radio play.

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6969m TIL that in ancient Babylon, doctors who failed to cure a patient or caused death could have their hands cut off as punishment
MemKm TIL that Tibet is full of oil and gas resources.
W7xd4 TIL Mr. Rogers was an ordained Presbyterian pastor who believed in the power of teaching through example which he felt would be just as powerful as preaching.
JpXv TIL in 1906 the Bronx Zoo exhibited a Congolese pygmy man named Ota Benga in its Monkey House. The New York Times made light of the outrage at the time calling the “imagined humiliation and degradation” of Ota Benga “absurd” because “pygmies are very low in the human scale”
LkLk0 TIL the reason two horizontal lines are used for the Equals sign is because, in the words of the inventor, “no 2 things can be more equal”