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TIL South Park made an episode of a future without religion. In the episode, instead of war between religions, atheist factions with different theories wage war against each other

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KOrOQ TIL that people with German ethnicity were expelled from eastern Europe the years after WW2. Approximately 12 million people were forcefully transferred, with between 500,000 to 2 million dying in the process. This event have been called a democide, or even a genocide, by some historians.
b9Rb4 TIL that Internet and dial-up Email were being used by ordinary people as early as 1984. Slow adoption was the challenge, not technology.
epVPD TIL: In 1973, Britain's "Black Arrow" rocket successfully launched from Australian soil and placed a satellite into orbit. Government arguments over who would fund continued development led to its cancellation, making Britain the only nation to abandon a successful space launch program.
WkNvX TIL in the early 20th century, trains in the US were destroyed in staged head-on collisions in front of live audiences for entertainment. This ended in the 1930s as it was seen to be wasteful of old but otherwise useful locomotives at the height of the Great Depression.
wZp1 TIL that originally, Monopoly was invented in 1903 to expose the unfairness of a social system where a small minority screw the majority of tenants.