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TIL about the Cottingley Fairies, a hoax made by 2 young girls, that claimed to have photographed fairies in their back yard. They managed to fool Arthur Conan Doyle with this hoax.

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OoExX TIL people who were deaf from birth and suffer from hallucinations will, instead of hearing voices, see things such as disembodied lips or hands moving or signing at them.
GAWE TIL there’s a tradition in the Mormon church called “Lying for the Lord” that says it’s OK to lie if it helps to spread the Mormon gospel
xVRD7 TIL about 'Pluto Lamps', Victorian Era street lights that sold hot coffee and soup.
woMg1 TIL, of a 1943 smog storm in Los Angeles which came so suddenly and was so intense, the noxious fumes were thought to be an enemy gas attack
GZE TIL that it takes the explosion of an atomic bomb to just detonate a hydrogen bomb.