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TIL about the Kogi tribe, an indigenous people who choose their priests at birth and raise them in a dark cave for a decade to connect them to the earth.

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a86Ry TIL Rob Bottin, the special effects artist for The Thing (1982) was only 22 when he started his work on the film.
w1KM TIL during the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on 26 December 2004, fishermen said they saw with their own eyes “the reality of generations of legends … the remains of ancient temples and hundreds of refrigerator-sized blocks, all briefly exposed before the sea swallowed them up again.”
vPGdx TIL that in the 1600s, Venetians fighting to lifting the siege of Candia considered infecting Ottoman soldiers with plague by attacking them with a liquid made from the spleens and buboes of plague victims. It was never carried out.
5YR8R TIL Kaiser Wilhelm II had a series of birth defects, most notably a withered left arm. Treatments for his arm include: salt water sprays, cold compression, electric shocks, stretching, and putting the arm into a fresh animal carcass (Queen Victoria thought this was a bad idea).
6eRY TIL, Sir Issac Newton hated his mother and step-father; he even threatened to kill them with fire.