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TIL Isaac Newton was extremely religious, and he rejected the Trinity.

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wLppJ TIL FARC got tricked into giving up their most high profile hostage and 14 others. The Colombian army made up a NGO which would transfer captives by helicopter. Once aboard the chopper, the soldiers revealed the ruse and arrested the militants, freeing all hostages. Not a single shot was fired.
wL8B7 TIL that while the fictional Jon Snow knew nothing, the microbiologist John Snow traced the outbreak of cholera to Soho, London, in 1854, and inspired the overhaul of waste management systems around the world.
1abX4 TIL a parrot was banned from a football game for imitating the referee's whistle and causing confusion
nWdb7 TIL the whistleblower of the Olympus Scandal, aka "one of the biggest and longest-running loss-hiding arrangements in Japanese corporate history", was Olympus' own CEO, Michael Christopher Woodford. He was fired after repeatedly questioning suspicious transactions and involving external auditors.
yQ41X TIL, people in medieval times used to sniff their own farts to ward off plagues. The air was thought to be dangerous, so strong smells were believed to repel infection.