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TIL 1816 was called “The Year Without a Summer” after the eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia. Crop failure forced Joseph Smith to leave Vermont, and his journeys resulted in “The Book of Mormon,” the dreary rain in Switzerland drove Mary Shelley to stay indoors, where she wrote “Frankenstein.”

oBwWY No one knows for sure what dinosaurs looked like, so paleontologists pull inspiration from modern birds and reptiles to design true-to-life dinosaurs and artists make informed guesses based on these clues.
OoVxa TIL in 1988 a musical version of Stephen King’s CARRIE opened on Broadway. The show was met with hisses and boos from the audience. The actress playing the mother resigned on opening night after nearly being decapitated by a moving set piece. It closed after 5 performances.
pJoe TIL The inscription on the Hiroshima Peace Memorial reads “please rest in peace for ‘we/they’ shall not repeat the error.” In Japanese, the sentence’s subject is omitted, thus it could be interpreted as 'we’ or 'they’. This was intended to memorialize the victims without politicizing the issue.
E1dZP TIL of the Surya Siddhanta, a book written in 4th century CE in India which describes the Earth’s diameter as 8000 miles (7928 by current standards) and the spherical shape of the earth also providing an accurate distance of the Moon from the earth before much before Galileo.
Y786G TIL The Khejarli massacre in 1730 resulted in 363 protestors being killed while protecting a forest. This gave rise to the "Chipko Movement" also known as "Tree huggers" in India