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TIL the musical Cats is based on a series of T. S. Eliot poems

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dDK79 TIL about Sati, a medieval practice among some Indians by which a recently widowed woman either voluntarily or by use of force commited suicide as a result of her husband's death. It was considered the highest expression of wifely devotion to a dead husband and was said to purge her of all her sins.
ADQKn TIL of Baji Rout, a 12 year old boatman shot dead by British Police in 1938, when he refused to ferry them across a river to quell a protest. He is regarded as youngest martyr of India's freedom struggle.
78VYP TIL: each 13.5 inch Oscar statue is plated with 1.5 times as much gold as the 21+ foot James Webb Space Telescope mirrors
ADnrw TIL that the 1990's cult hit "Event Horizon" was heavily inspired by Warhammer 40,000 and many fans of the tabletop strategy game consider the movie to be an unofficial prequel
DLkr TIL the last Emperor of Ethiopia was deposed in 1975, almost 1000 years after the first Emperor was crowned.