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TIL that Joan of Arc was declared innocent of heresy in a retrial twenty-five years after being burned at the stake.

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xVbbB TIL in 1954, Soviet rocket engineer Sergei Korolev could not get funding to pursue a space program, so he planted a fake new-story claiming Russia was going to launch a satellite. The US responded that they were also going to launch one, so the Soviets then agreed to fund the program.
GYmYG TIL that Russia after winning WW2 drank the country's Vodka supply, and was without Vodka.
GBvE TIL movie previews were originally shown at the end of a film, trailing the main feature. This is why movie previews are called “trailers.”
awAxA TIL all "warranty void if removed" stickers are illegal in the US since 1975
68jQ TIL: The idea that humans could not have been created in their current form was first reasoned by Anaximander more than 2400 years before Darwin’s Publication of “The Origin of Species”