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TIL thay Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism are part of the same religion family: the Dharmic or indian religions.

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GAy5N TIL the Big Bang got its name from a Cambridge astronomer who thought the theory was bullshit. That man also discovered that elements were created inside star cores by nuclear fusion and believed that life originates from outside Earth .
ANWDo TIL about the "Man of the Hole", the last survivor of an indigenous group in Brazil. He had lived in total isolation for 26 years after the massacre of his tribe before passing away in 2022.
V4Jp TIL screen legend beauty Hedy Lamarr was also an inventor who designed a jam-proof radio guidence system for torpedoes which is one of the basic sources behind spread spectrum communication like blue-tooth technology, GPS, wi-fi, and cell phones
Lk6lr TIL the Epic of Gilgamesh depicts stories that are virtually identical to Adam & Eve and Noah’s Flood, but predates the Bible by at least a thousand years, indicating that the Christian stories are not original but derived from ancient Mesopotamian legend
4v16 TIL for Yao Ming’s first game in Miami in 2002, the Heat gave out 8,000 fortune cookies as a promotion for the game. Yao did not take offense because he had never seen a fortune cookie in China and assumed it was an American invention.