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TIL that of 1763 recorded wars, only 123 (7%) of them had a religious cause.

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p84LG TIL Joseph Stalin banned the field of genetics as capitalistic 'bourgeois pseudoscience', with fatal consequences for many Soviet scientists.
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XEAZR TIL Researchers created an algorithm that can reconstruct an audio by analyzing minute vibrations of objects depicted in video. In one set of experiments, they were able to recover intelligible speech from the vibrations of a potato-chip bag photographed from 15 feet away through soundproof glass
1xNX TIL coming back from the moon, Apollo astronauts had to go through customs and declare moon rock as cargo.
P1e5V TIL that mead (or honey wine) has different names when blended with different ingredients. When fermented with grape juice, it is called "pyment," with apple juice "cyser," with other fruits "melomel," with herbs or spices "metheglin," and with hops, grains, or malts "braggot"