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TIL that Wikipedia is “close to the level of accuracy in Encyclopedia Britannica”, with a similar rate of “serious errors”

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ne0XW TIL that the CIA knew Soviet citizens had a better diet than American citizens
N7lQb TIL about George Wilson, convicted of robbing the US mail, turned down a pardon from Andrew Jackson. He was later hanged.
AN7PB TIL: There is a myth about Korean Virgin Ghosts which are formed when an unmarried women dies. They haunt newly married couples. If you get possessed by one, you'd harbor strong resentment and are unmarriable. Virgin ghosts are counteracted by phallic shrines, dolls, and burying them upside down.
rRPZ4 TIL about Dumah, the angel of silence and of the stillness of death, in Rabbinical and Islamic literature. Dumah is described as the thousand-eyed angel of death, armed with a flaming sword, having authority over the wicked dead. Dumah is also the Aramaic word for silence.
eplGL TIL in 1452/1453 a mystery eruption took place that expelled more than six times as much matter as the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo. Its location remains unidentified