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TIL that there are about a hundred thousand people in Greece who still worship pre-Christian gods

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x6pPB TIL The Maimonides Dream Telepathy experiments were real scientific studies conducted during the 1960s and 1970s at the Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York. Led by researchers such as Dr. Montague Ullman and Dr. Stanley Krippner, the experiments aimed to investigate the possibility of te
lyvN TIL The day Matt Damon and Ben Affleck filmed the opening airport scene in Dogma (1999) was the day the won their Oscar for Good Will Hunting (1997).
p8nlG TIL that the ancient greeks used to choose their politicians via a method called "sortition", much like how potential jurors are selected today. And, like jury duty, it was seen as an inconvenience to those selected.
KOBdQ TIL of Michael Fagan, the man who broke into Buckingham Palace. Twice.
gaoD TIL: From 1885 until 1896, the first artificial structure visible to immigrants arriving to the United States was the giant Coney Island Elephant