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TIL the British colonial regime in India criminalised entire communities under the 'Criminal Tribes Act'. The law subjected millions to arrest, resettlement and hard labour, often based on their nomadic or impoverished background.

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eQk5 TIL The Chinese had a little known civil war around the same time as the US Civil war. The government tried to silence a huge cult which believed their leader was the little brother of Jesus, but it ended up causing a 14 year war that killed millions of people. The deadliest war of the 19th century.
6jeX TIL The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie is loosely based on The Odyssey. The Cyclops enemy and Bag of Winds are directly lifted from The Odyssey, and both receive help from a deity along the way (Athena and Princess Mindy), + more
MeeBb TIL of the religion of Nuwaubianism - which holds the belief that Satan's child is being nurtured by the illuminati and was raised by former US President Richard Nixon, and is currently hooked up bodily to a machine called "The Beast 3M" or "3666"
kO9Xm TIL that a butcher in Vienna, Austria made Sausages he learnt in Frankfurt, Germany, changing the recipe slightly and called them "Frankfurter". It got so famous that the world (including Germany) calls them Wiener now apart from the people in Austria who call it Frankfurter.
YDLP TIL The Barrymore family is an acting dynasty; Drew Barrymore is a 4th generation actor and their family even has a historical marker in Philadelphia