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TIL the bad guys from Indiana jones were a real Indian cult who murdered travelers as a form of worship to Kali. They’re also where the term thug comes from.

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4k8A6 TIL of The Golden Spruce, a 300 year old, 170ft tall, Sitka spruce with a rare genetic mutation that gave its needles a golden color. It was a sacred symbol of the Haida people of British Columbia. It was cut down by Grant Hadwin, a forest engineer, as an act of protest of the logging industry.
R5Pll TIL that the founder of Lipton Tea, Sir Thomas Lipton, was a lifelong bachelor who had a secret relationship with his shop assistant, William Love
XEyPQ TIL That the City of Manchester gets it's name from the Celtic name 'Mamucium' which means breast shaped hill.
Z87oB TIL cruise ships emissions can equal the equivalent of one million cars per day and air quality on deck can be worse than in the world’s most polluted cities.
69pRw TIL about Russia’s “Time of Troubles” (1598–1612), when three imposters—False Dmitry I, II, and III—each claimed to be Ivan the Terrible’s son, who had died at age 8. All seized power as Tsar and died violently. The chaos ended with the rise of the Romanov dynasty in 1613.