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TIL that Congressman Leo Ryan, who was assassinated at Jonestown, had a daughter that lived in the Rajneesh commune in Oregon

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6EY6w TIL About "Cargo Cults", which are religions that are formed from natives seeing bases being built in their areas during WW2, after the war ended and everything was abandoned, the natives would try and replicate the soldiers during ceremonies, such as by marching, and signaling planes to land
JY7mm TIL Any word, when repeated multiple times consecutively, loses its meaning and starts sounding weird. This is called semantic satiation. It happens because the brain ceases to recognise it as a word and breaks it down into sounds.
oBn5r TIL that the dome of the Neutrino detector under the mount Gran Sasso (Italy), has been done with bricks of lead 2000 years old found in a anciet Roman ship
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