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TIL of crow funerals - crows are among the few social creatures that have certain rituals that honor their dead fellows.

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PZaO TIL that Joseph Smith was killed by an angry mob while incarcerated. Smith had tried to suppress a local that had exposed Smith’s practice of polygamy - implying that he used his religion as a pretext to seduce and marry unassuming women - including the wives of some of his closest associates
5V0lQ TIL that Mecca was laid siege in 1979 by a man who thought he was the prophesied Mahdi (the eschatological basis of Frank Herbert's Muad'Dib) and this attack triggered the conservative transformation away from liberal reforms, for Saudi culture, for decades.
4Xrx6 TIL Not only were the Ninja Turtles named after Renaissance painters, but there was a Renaissance painter, Giovanni di ser Giovanni Guidi, who was nicknamed "The Splinter." (Fixed from my previous post)
mvMx TIL that key members of the Bush admin leaked the name of a covert CIA operative because her husband revealed that Bush manipulated evidence to justify the invasion of Iraq.
O5GY TIL: Due to differences in calendars, it is currently 2070 in Nepal and 2006 in Ethiopia.