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TIL of James Tilly Matthews, an 18th-century peace activist who fell under the delusion that his thoughts were being remotely controlled by an apparatus he called the “Air Loom”. His case is considered to be an early example of paranoid schizophrenia.

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D1Axv TIL that the alien in Alien was played by a Nigerian man named Bolaji Badejo. He died of sickle cell anemia in 1992, at the age of 39.
KYvla TIL that from July 9, 1832 to August 5, 1835 there was a small, unrecognized country called the Republic of Indian Stream carved from a contested segment of New Hampshire on the border of the US and British Lower Canada. The citizens voted to join New Hampshire in 1836.
7rW6x TIL In 2008 a British man traveling to Dubai was sentenced to 4 years in prison after being caught with 0.003g of Cannabis, Which was stuck to his shoe.
0w6Ev TIL of Norman Morrison, who was a Quaker that set himself on fire under Robert McNamaras office in the pentagon. He was protesting the innocent lives that were being taken in Vietnam at the time. The city Da Nang has road named after Morrison in memory of his acts against the US-Vietnam conflict.
Zp4mp TIL the customizer who created the Jaguar Hearse in Harold & Maude didn't see the movie until 2016, 45 years after its debut.