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TIL that the rapture, the evangelical belief that Christians will physically ascend to meet Jesus in the sky, is an idea that only dates to the 1830s.

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bWPZ TIL Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of “Yesterday” one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to find out whether he did not subconsciously plagiarize it from someone else.
ANM87 TIL: While the South Pole lies on a continental land mass, the North Pole is located in the middle of the Arctic Ocean amid waters that are almost permanently covered with constantly shifting sea ice.
p858p TIL that the Icewind Dale region of the hugely popular D&D "Forgotten Realms" campaign setting was created with author R.A. Salvatore claimed a typo on the map as the setting for his new book since all the other regions were taken by other authors.
PYByw TIL that Top Fuel Dragsters burn up to 15 gallons of nitromethane per approximately 4 second run reaching speeds of up to 330 MPH. The engine is entirely rebuilt between each run in just 40 minutes. The drivers experience up to 4.75g's of force, more than an austronaut during a space shuttle launch.
pYadG TIL that, after being struck on a foggy river in 1914, a passenger ship sunk in under 15 minutes, rendering useless the fact that there actually were enough lifeboats. Over a thousand perished.