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TIL that through contact with Indonesian people, some Aboriginal peoples in Northern Australia have adapted elements of Islam into their native religion, including Allah himself as a funerary deity

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Z8vNB TIL Sigmund Freud, who has such profound affect on finding the cause and cure of mental illness, was addicted to cocaine and died because of smoking
YPkG TIL the first 1 million dollar budget movie in America (1916) also featured the first full female nudity in a mainstram film. It was a commercial success, but no copies of it exist. It is a lost movie.
LQjaP TIL Elizabeth Greenhill (1615-1679) and her husband William Greenhill had 39 children together (32 daughters & 7 sons). All were single births save one set of twins, which is unusual as the most common cause of such a large number of children, hyperovulation, typically manifests as multiple births.
VM4Ep TIL Jeff Bezos is building a 10,000-Year Clock in a mountain in Texas.
wo54P TIL sloths can hold their breath for 40 minutes, which is longer than many marine mammals including dolphins