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TIL in 1987, the residents of the atoll island of Faaite in French Polynesia were gripped by mass hysteria brought on by Tahitian cultists who had taken control of the local church leadership and spread rumors of demon possession which culminated in six locals being burned alive on a bonfire.

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b6o60 TIL that special effects had to be employed in The Last Waltz, Martin Scorsese's film of The Band's farewell concert, due to a visible amount of cocaine being present on Neil Young's nose during his performance.
DQYYD TIL, why my sunburns sting so bad. Some soothing gels for sunburns have lidocaine in it to help ease the pain of a burn. However, I am one if the rare few who is allergic to this. So don't be like me and learn the hardway that you can be allergic to lidocaine. Posting to hopefully save some pain.
awNgA TIL Taiwanese author Chen Yingzhen was a supporter of the notion of a unifying Chinese national identity in Taiwan. Chen was "considered by many Chinese readers and critics in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and overseas to be Taiwan's greatest author"
74RZ TIL the siphonophorae are animals that appear to be one organism but actually consist of a colony of highly specialised individual animals called zooids
NXQXQ TIL In 1611, Johannes Fabricius and his father observed sunspots directly through a telescope shortly after sunrise or before sunset. They discovered that the Sun rotates by recording how sunspots moved around