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TIL Russian voters used to have a box on their ballots to vote for “against all”.

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em4k TIL that you might see an illusion or even a creepy monster if you stare at your reflection in a mirror long enough. This phenomenon, known as psychomanteum, dates back to Ancient Greece, where a person would gaze into a still pool of water to communicate with spirits.
N7BM TIL a Massachussets judge ordered a mentally ill woman to have an abortion and be sterilized against her wishes.
Xl9R TIL of The Hole: a facility operated by the Church of Scientology in California. The Tampa Bay Times described it as “a place of confinement and humiliation where Scientology’s management culture…grew extreme.” It has been described by ex-members comparable to that of a North Korean death camp.
4XO7N TIL that both E.T. and Poltergeist were developed from a single unproduced movie called 'Night Skies'
rR7nx TIL Charles Waterton was a naturalist who preceded Darwin. He taught a Guyanese slave to practice taxidermy, who taught Charles Darwin. He is credited as the first man to bring the poison curare to Europe to be used as a veterinary anesthetic, and he liked to dress as a scarecrow and sit in trees.