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TIL that in the greeks myths there was the Unknown God, a placeholder for those gods yet unknown to the ancient greeks .

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j6NxM TIL about the Widmanstätten pattern wich forms in asteroids and because of many factors including temperature, pressure, time and iron/nickel content, it's impossible to recreate on earth in the same way
8Ov4 TIL that a robotic exploration of Loch Ness found a sunken Loch Ness monster movie prop
NnW1 TIL all people convicted in the 1984 Bhopal MIC Gas disaster, which killed 3,000 people and injured over 500,000, got a total fine of $2,000
Lk7v9 TIL that former British MP Winston Churchill won a Nobel Price in 1953 - but instead for peace, as he had hoped, he won it for his writing.
KY0AR TIL the story of William Tell shooting the apple on his son's head was punishment for refusing to submit to an official. Tell would be executed if he didn't hit the apple with a crossbow bolt. Tell drew two bolts, and hit it with his first shot. The second bolt was to kill the official if he missed!