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TIL of Aglaonice of Thessaly, an ancient greek sorceress, part of a coven of witches known for their abillity to "draw down the moon". In reality, Aglaonice and her female accolites were likely accomplished astronomers able to predict lunar eclipses

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wNA6 TIL Between 2000-2015, Google had an informal motto of “Don’t be evil”. The idea was to have a motto that “once you put it in there, would be hard to take out”. When Google began to track users in 2012, there was a public backlash to the motto. The motto was replaced by “Do the right thing” in 2015.
GoKG TIL a pit bull earned the ranking of Sergeant in the US Army during WWI and is considered a decorated war hero.
P1r8J TIL Alice Cooper was a close friend of Groucho Marx, helping Marx through bouts of insomnia in the 1970s.
OoaYY TIL a German peasant girl claimed she tasted the sweet foreskin of Jesus during communion in the 13th century. Her confessor's notes about it were published 500 years later, confiscated and put on the index of banned books, then re-released in the 20th century.
epEP6 TIL the word Utopia was invented by Renaissance Humanist scholar and writer Sir Thomas More, in a fictional 16th-century novel about an ideal society. He was eventually beheaded by Henry VIII for refusing to recognize the King's Church Of England.