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TIL, a group of zebras can be called a "dazzle" of zebras.
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TIL Edgar Whisenant, former NASA engineer, wrote a multi-million-copies-sold book about the Rapture happening in 1988. When it didn't, he wrote another one about it happening in 1989, then 1993, and finally in 1994. His predictions were unsuccessful.
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TIL in 1953, a paper boy acquired a hollowed-out nickel containing a ciphered message while collecting for his deliveries. He told the daughter of an NYPD officer and the news got to the FBI, eventually leading to the arrest and conviction of KGB agent Vilyam Fisher four years later.
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TIL that the German equivalent of Renaissance Faires is "Indianer Camps". Germans meticulously re-create the Wild West and dress up as Native Americans and cowboys.
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TIL that some old books were released with some of the pages “uncut” and folded together, and in order to read them, you must cut the pages
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TIL about Saint Josaphat (aka Būdhasaf), a legendary Christian saint whose life is based on Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. His life story tells of how Josaphat, a son of an Indian kind that persecuted the Christian Church in his kingdom, converted to Christianity.