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TIL mountain goats are not actually goats, but members of the Antelope family

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vgOR TIL that according to the Hawaiian creation myth, our universe comes from the wreckage of another, earlier universe and the only creatures that survived from that alien universe are octopuses
ADJkl TIL about Cargo Cults, Melanesian groups that attempted to recreate the magic that was "cargo drops". When the U.S military occupied Pacific islands during WW2, the islanders witnessed the soldiers receive goods from the sky, and thought it was the result of magic rituals performed by the soldiers.
Z8lja TIL Tens of thousands of Romani were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp, along with Serbs, Jews, and Anti-fascist Muslims and Croats. Yad Vashem estimates that the Porajmos was most intense in Yugoslavia, where around 90,000 Romani were killed.
P1ble TIL about Thomas Aikenhead, the person in the United Kingdom to be executed for blasphemy. Only 20 at the time for his death, his execution in 1697 was intended to be used by the Lord Advocate, Sir James Stewart as a warning to those who would hold opinions contrary to traditional Christian beliefs.
NAeQ TIL that the city of Fairbanks, Alaska holds the world’s largest rechargeable battery, which powers the whole city during outages.