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TIL "Celebration" by Kool & the Gang is inspired by the Quran - specifically, the passage where angels were celebrating while God was creating Adam.

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neGbP TIL that the decline of the Maya may have been strongly attributed to inter-city warfare, and hieroglyphs in 2002 tell the story.
D1y1V TIL from 1917 to 1918 British Intelligence paid an Italian journalist the modern equivalent of £6,000 (US$ 8,290) per week to keep up the pro-war campaigning. The cash got him a start in politics, and was also allegedly lavished on his many mistresses. The journalist was 34-year-old Benito Mussolini
Yrr7 TIL of Sgt Thomas Durrant who posthumously received the Victoria Cross following recommendation by the commander of an enemy ship that he fought against. He repeatedly refused to leave his exposed Lewis gun, drawing enemy fire towards him, receiving severe injury until the enemies boarded his ship.
OoxpX TIL of Hans Munch - the good man of Auschwitz - the only doctor who refused to participate in the selection process. He created elaborate, safe, experiments to keep his subjects from being exterminated. He is the only person to be acquitted at the Auschwitz Trials.
epw0J TIL in 1906, the raja of Bali and his entourage of priests, guards, women and children marched in trance towards the Dutch invaders. They took bullets from the Dutch army, and stabbed each other with ritual daggers until every single one died. This was a ritualistic mass suicide as final resistance