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TIL about Christopher Knight, a man who lived for 27 years completely alone in the woods of Maine.

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M7LPm TIL of the novel "The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century". Written in 1827, it is the first English story to feature a reanimated mummy. Notably, it is science fiction, not horror, taking place in the year 2126 with the Pharaoh Cheops returning and giving political and life advice to people.
EMld TIL there was a briefly popular social movement in the early 1930s called the “Technocracy Movement.” Technocrats proposed replacing politicians and businessmen with scientists and engineers who had the expertise to manage the economy.
dDxKd TIL A man sued the makers of Lineage II, an online game, for making him addicted to it. He claimed that he played the game for over 20,000 hours and neglected his family, hygiene, and health. He won the case and received an undisclosed settlement.
lLn1 TIL a 12-year-old was awarded $3,000 for finding couple of bugs in Mozilla codebase
4XR6 TIL In 1978 the Mormon church “amended” their religion to allow Blacks to be priests