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TIL the phrase “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it”, which is often attributed to Voltaire himself, was actually created ​​by Evelyn Beatrice Hall, in her biography of Voltaire

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xVZ91 TIL that on the island of Melanesia, natives there reenact US military parades and made a fake runway with fake airplanes to pray for the return of a US soldier by the name of John Frum so that he could bring them cargo filled with industrial blessings such as medicine, guns, and canned goods.
69Qdw TIL about Scheele’s Green (aka Schloss Green), an arsenic-laced artificial color very popular in the 19th century, showing up in artificial flowers, candles, toys, fashionable ladies’ clothing, soap, beauty products, confections, and wallpaper and leading to scores of deaths.
gr7A8 TIL Diet Coke was only invented in 1982.
GYk5 TIL that the Iranian Nuclear Program really got off the ground in 1976 when Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld convince President Ford to sell Plutonium to Iran.
awOoL TIL 3.6. million Japanese celebrate Christmas the “traditional Western way” by eating KFC. The demand is so high that getting the KFC special Christmas dinner requires ordering it weeks in advance.