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TIL that during a 2011 census for the Czech Republic, 11,000 people listed their religion as "Knights of the Jedi"

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6E8xW TIL Count Juan Raphael Dante, a director of the US Karate Association until 1962, didn't like the focus on ceremony, tradition, and protocol, over "effectiveness", so he created the "Dance of Death" system, taught in a mail-order booklet, World's Deadliest Fighting Secrets, advertised in comic books
P1gEg TIL that during WWII, a dentist came up with 'Project X-Ray,' strapping incendiary bombs onto bats to start fires in Japanese cities. However, the plan failed due to difficulties in training the bats and lack of military funding. Development ceased in 1944.
b97va TIL you are a Jr. if you're named after your dad, but a II (second) if you take the name from someone else in the family.
0wKQp TIL that Christianity became the state religion of the Roman Empire in the 380s, when Emperor Theodosius banned Pagan rituals and holidays, disbanded the Vestal virgins, extinguished the Sacred Fire, destroyed the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and put an end to the Ancient Olympic Games
b9K09 TIL female shrimp get one or two eyes removed to increase reproduction- it’s called eyestalk ablation