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VyQm TIL of Kremlinology. During the Cold War, so little information was available about the USSR’s government that Kremlinologists studied the order Soviet leaders appeared (or didn’t appear) during parades, and the timing and spacing between them, to see who was powerful and who had lost influence.
dWLK TIL that the real Illuminati, founded in the late 1700s, were formed to oppose “superstition [and] prejudice,” and supported “women’s education and gender equality”
BrmBb TIL toeprints are as unique as fingerprints
D1r5r TIL of "Private SNAFU" - an animated training series developed by Frank Capra and written by Dr. Seuss for the US military during WW2. Walt Disney was supposed to develop the cartoons and wanted exclusive ownership to the "SNAFU" character, but Warner Bros. outbid him and secured the rights instead.
Gex5 TIL That Medieval Pope Gregory IX considered cats to be the ‘incarnation of Satan’. Leading to a mass killing of cats, causing the rat population to swell, quickening the spread of the Black Death (fifth paragraph)