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TIL 1941 after a meteor shower two Canadian Inuit announced they were Jesus and God and convinced people to kill their sled dogs since people will soon be able to fly. 9 people ended up losing their lives as a result of the community spread insanity.

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6Ew47 TIL about the Ice block expedition of 1959. Glassvatt successfully transported 3 tons of ice from Mo i Rana to Libreville without any refrigeration , losing only 11% of ice weight in the journey which took 27 days to complete over 10,000 km(~6200miles).
78ExO TIL there is a brand of Sake called Nagasaki that looks suspiciously like a bomb.
XEank TIL moviegoers seeing "13 Ghosts" in 1960 could choose if they wanted to see the ghosts or not. The ghosts were added with a red filter on scenes with a blue filter. People were given viewers with red and blue cellophane, and depending on which one they looked through could "remove" the ghosts.
LkpJv TIL during the filming of Interview with the Vampire, a shallow trench was dug for Brad Pitt to walk alongside Tom Cruise so that their significant height disparity wouldn't be apparent on camera.
R5bnw TIL that the last legal duel-to-the-death in the USA was fought in 1859, and it resulted in the death of A U.S. senator at the hands of a Supreme Court (of California) justice.