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TIL ancient Rome had a Great Religious Corporation that arranged feasts and public banquets at festivals and games.

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M77PA TIL Florida attempted to build an artifical reef out of old tires which unintentionally caused a massive ecological disaster
neKZo TIL Some people Consider Dandelion plant a pesky weed yet it may have Potential Health Benefits according to Evidence based article written by licensed nutritionists and dietitians and contains scientific references.
yVVaw TIL of Lauren Stratford (Wilson) who wrote a book claiming that she was in a Satanic cult in which she sacrificed her own child. After magazine reporters exposed her as never having a child, she changed her name and claimed to be a holocaust survivor, and was exposed again by the same magazine.
4RRb TIL during the Cuban missile crisis a Soviet Submarine came under attack from depth charges, the captain assumed WW3 had started and prepared to launch a nuclear weapon, his executive officer overruled him. It turned out the depth charges were training rounds being used to signal them to surface.
9YMEM TIL that during the sea recovery of the bodies from the 1986 Challenger disaster, one of the bodies disappeared underwater and the search for it was called off. Fellow astronaut Robert Crippen rented a fishing boat and continued the search himself, eventually finding and returning the body.