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5YB7R TIL Buganda's Indigenous religion has a saying for when they pray to their gods for help “Lubaale mbeera, nga n'embiro kw'otadde" (pray for deliverance from danger, but start running too).
4kB9R TIL that Edward Seaga (the 5th prime minister of Jamaica) was also a record producer and owner of the record label West Indies Records Limited.
lo6EK TIL that during the Mariner 4 Mars mission in 1964, the scientists were so eager to see the first ever close up images of another planet that they printed out the numerical data and hand colored it with crayons instead of waiting for a processed image.
pNJp TIL a physics professor proved mathematically that vampires could not exist since if they fed once a month and each victim became a vampire, within two and a half years the entire population of the earth would be one.
6EBDW TIL Christmas was banned by Parliament in 1644 and abolished in 1647. The army actively stopped people from celebrating Christmas. Oliver Cromwell and the Puritans thought Christmas festivities were sinful, wasteful, and had no biblical justification.