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TIL that Déjà rêvé is the feeling of having already dreamed something that you are now experiencing.

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JJGk TIL Dust from the Sahara Desert travels across the Atlantic Ocean helping fertilize soil in the Amazon rainforest.
9YQ5B TIL about "Old Tom", an Orca that would help whalers kill baleen whales in exchange for the tongues and lips of the kills (the "Law of the Tongue")
8lGZ TIL that the ancient Romans possessed an herb that was so effective at birth control that they harvested it to extinction
OoR4Y TIL the Khlysty, a Russian Christian sect, would engage at the end of their services in "group sinning" (a frenzied sexual orgy), to purify themselves from the lusts of the flesh. They believed that salvation required total repentance, which was far more achievable for one who had truly transgressed
E18YP TIL That at the premiere of the Good Omens TV series, a front row seat was left empty in tribute to Terry Pratchett. His trademark scarf and hat were placed on it, and there was a bag of popcorn- Neil Gaiman said that Terry wanted to sit next to him and eat popcorn if an Omens movie ever happened.