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TIL the Aztecs followed Spaniards around with incense burners when they came to the Americas. The Spaniards believed this to be a divine honour, however it was actually a necessity due to the wide gap in hygiene between the two peoples. The Aztec found their stench unbearable.

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BgyNd TIL about the 1927 Dole Air Race where, out of 15 entrants, two were disqualified, two withdrew, and three aircraft crashed before the race, and only two finished the race
wLMb7 TIL, India is first country in the world to launch more than 100 satellites at one go.
nWNxG TIL that triple cooked chips were invented in 1993 by Heston Blumenthal
X077j TIL about the Phantom Time Hypothesis, a conspiracy that suggests that the AD dating system was fabricated to place Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, Pope Sylvester II, and Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII at 1000 AD. According to this, the years AD 614 - 911 (the early Middle Ages) never happened.
aLr0 TIL that in the past 15 years China has tortured 3700 Falun Gong practitioners to death, and from 2000-08, killed another 64,000 for their organs.