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TIL of the Prince Philip Movement. A religious movement followed by the Kastom people in Vanuatu, Oceania. It is a cargo cult that believes in the divinity of the late Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, Duke Of Edinburgh.

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kJvQ5 TIL that Bill Mitchell, GM design head, wanted the Mako Shark concept car painted the same color as an actual mako shark mounted in his office. After the design team failed to match the color, they stole the shark and painted it to match the car's paint. Mitchell never realized the difference.
VKem TIL in 1700 India’s economy had a 24.4% share of world income, the largest in the world after which it steadily declined under the British Raj (Empire) until in 1952, it was only 3.8%.
mkjO TIL: an Octopus doesn’t have 8 legs/arms, but 6 arms and 2 legs
XE60X TIL that the ethnic Samaritans of the Bible still exist in modern-day Israel. They number about 820 people and still practice a distinctly ancient form of Judaism.
dDkJZ Til about Eben Byers, an early-1900s golfer who died after drinking over a thousand doses of Radithor, a "medicine" laced with radium.