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TIL Treatise of the Three Impostors was a supposed book existing in legend since the 13th century that denied Islam, Christianity and Judaism. The Pope accused the Holy Roman Emperor of having this view, though the Emperor denied it.

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oBM5E TIL U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sent American combat troops to Russia during the Russian Revolution to protect arms meant for the newly-collapsed Eastern Front, as well as to rescue 56,000 Czech soldiers allied with the Triple Entente who became stranded along the Trans-Siberian Railroad.
yQkpa TIL J.K Rowling was rejected by 12 publishers before Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone was accepted by Bloomsbury - and even then only at the insistence of the chairman's eight-year-old daughter.
Me7N8 TIL that in the 60s, a small town in New Mexico built an underground elementary school capable of withstanding a 20-megaton nuclear blast.
78OwO TIL: The US State Department has a “Dissent Channel” that provides diplomats and other officials a way to formally criticize policy decisions and that it was only established in 1971
4KkN TIL Gandhi married at the age of 13. Recalling his wedding, he once said “We didn’t know much about marriage, for us it meant only wearing new clothes, eating sweets and playing with relatives.” He first became a father at 15 in spite of his wife spending most of her time at her mothers.