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TIL That Alawites, a branch of Shia Islam present in Syria, believe that humans were once stars in the firmament that were casted out of it due to divine punishment and have to go through several reincarnations before they can return to the sky

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WkBrL TIL there is a scoring system for UNO. Once a player has no cards remaining, he receives all opponents’ cards and points are counted.
BKyW TIL: Michael Keaton’s birth name is Michael Douglas. He changed it when he became an actor because SAG rules stipulate that no two members may have identical working names.
VBL1m TIL The days of the week were named after the planets: Sun, Moon, Mars (Ares), Mercury (Hermes), Jupiter (Zeus), Venus (Aphrodite) and Saturn (Cronos_
dMvE TIL Under Indonesian labor law, women “are not obliged to come to work on the first and second day of menstruation”
awYGy TIL that in 1978, a Soviet scientist named Anatoli Bugorski stuck his head in a particle accelerator that sent a beam of protons traveling at nearly the speed of light straight through his head. He survived with half his face paralysed & deafness in one ear, completing his doctorate shortly after.