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TIL that Shakespeare's wife's name was Anne Hathaway

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vPbaj TIL that even enemies of the Aztecs who were chosen for sacrifice understood their role to be sacrificed to the gods, because they practiced the same religion. Victims were expected to greet passerby, bless children, visit people in their homes, and even lead sacred songs, processions, and dances.
E15DX TIL there was a massive lacrosse game between two tribes, Ojibwe vs Sauk, that was actually a ruse employed in order to capture a British fort in 1763
Koya TIL The Simpsons Movie was banned in Burma because the censor board prohibits the colors yellow and red in film
4MPR TIL that when you sign up for the CVS rewards program you are agreeing to wave your HIPAA rights, and CVS can then disclose your medical information to others
wJV6 TIL of the Sonderkommando photographs - four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 by an inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.