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TIL the Hammer of Thor is an approved religious symbol for veteran gravestones in the US and two soldiers have such headstones

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e0xBL TIL the film industry relocated from New York to LA to escape from Thomas Edison's patents.
x6Pv5 TIL the Aghori is a Hindu Shaivite monastic order, who's practices focus on breaking taboos, and rejecting purity. They include living in cemeteries, smearing cremation ashes on their bodies, making items from bones, meditating on corpses, and even having sex in the presence of corpses.
Be1b TIL in 2014, South Korean Christians put up a Christmas tree visible from the North Korean Border. North Korea responded by calling it a “tool for psychological warfare” and threatened to bomb it.
J1ra1 TIL that "On December 20, 1836, temperatures [in Illinois] fell 40 °F or 22.2 °C in minutes, which supposedly froze people to their saddles and chickens in their tracks."
GAww1 TIL that in 1926, Nikola Tesla predicted modern cell phones. Tesla described a future "when wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth" in a way that allows humans "to communicate with one another instantly irrespective of distance" with the clarity of a face-to-face meeting using a device.