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TIL That the Kingdom of Armenia was the first state in history to adopt Christianity as its official religion.

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m6JO TIL after WWII plants were bombarded with radiation to produce useful mutations known as Atomic Gardening which resulted in todays peppermint and red grapefruit
D1o0P TIL NASA and the U.S. Naval used 11 deaf men from Gallaudet University and their inability to get nauseous to study the effects of prolonged weightlessness on the human body. Their work made substantial contributions to the understanding of motion sickness and adaptation to spaceflight.
ZpkaQ TIL the 1980s cartoon "The Littles", is not based on Mary Norton's book series "The Borrowers" but John Peterson's book series, also titled "The Littles", which has a very similar premise
MDjB TIL that some vegans choose not to eat honey because they consider beekeeping to be slavery
MbGA TIL that Daniel Day-Lewis, while playing Hamlet, collapsed, sobbing uncontrollably, during the scene where the ghost of Hamlet’s father appears. He later said that he saw the ghost of his own father, and has not appeared on stage since then.