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TIL that Posadism, a current of communism believed that visiting aliens from other planets must live in highly advanced communist societies and are bound to help earth-based communists in bringing an interplanetary communist revolution.

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E1Wbp TIL That in 1917, 7 years after Mark Twain's death, two spiritualist mediums claimed that Twain’s ghost had dictated them a new novel via Ouija Board. The novel was published, received very poor reviews and the book publisher was prosecuted by the Twain estate.
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YpaJA TIL the Cagots were a group of people that did not differ in race, language, or culture from the people around them... despite this, they were hated and persecuted for centuries, and historians still aren't sure why
yVo8l TIL that Czech president Vaclav Havel appointed Frank Zappa as Special Ambassador to the West in 1990.