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TIL the Catholic Church considers superstition to be a sin.
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TIL that the False Consensus Effect is real, and causes people to believe their opinions are more widely shared than they actually are, making us more confident than we should be that we are “right”. This is often exaggerated since we generally surround ourselves with others who share our opinions.
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TIL William Sessions (FBI director until 1993) became a lawyer for the Russian mob's international leader
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TIL in 1985, Ryan White was refused re-entry to his school due to him having AIDS. 117 Parents and 50 teachers petitioned for his ban. People even cancelled their subscriptions as White was the paperboy and they believed they would be infected via newsprint.
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TIL Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of prostitutes.
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TIL that in 1845, Queen Ranavalona I of Madagascar ordered 50,000 of her subjects to go on a buffalo hunt. The hunt required building roads across jungles and lasted for 4 months, with around 10,000 people died from exhaustion, starvation, and malarial disease - but not a single buffalo was killed