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TIL Space Jam is the highest grossing basketball film ever made

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neYW7 TIL In 2018, American missionary John Chau illegally contacted the Sentinelese to preach Christianity, believing their island to be Satan's last stronghold, resulting in his death.
Bvwe TIL that the FBI tried to infiltrate a mosque in Irvine by sending one of their agents to incite terrorism. The people of the mosque reported him to the FBI instead.
KY8OR T​IL about James Graham​, ​a 18th century Scottish sexologist, who treated patients at his 'Celestial Bed', a canopied "wonder-working edifice" covered in musical automata, fresh flowers & live turtle dove​s, and which stimulated couples to conceive with oriental fragrances and celestial sounds
VM7Qk TIL that Vladimir Lenin spoke English with an Irish accent. According to a Russian diplomat, "Lenin said that his tutor in English was an Irishman and that was why he was speaking with an Irish accent."
J1we1 TIL The tomb of St. Nicholas excretes a liquid called manna. For hundreds of years this manna has been collected by the Church. (fixed link)