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TIL of 'The World's Loneliest Man' who is a man from Brazil who has never been contacted by the outside world and who's remaining members of the tribe were massacred in the mid '90's.

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9wORp TIL Adolf Hitler was such a big fan of Disney that his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels gifted him 18 Mickey Mouse shorts for Christmas 1937. Also Roy Disney sold Hitler a copy of Snow White, which he considered one of the greatest movies ever made, though never shown to the German public.
eMeb TIL of the Cathars - a medieval christian sect that condemned war and capital punishment; believed in reincarnation, two gods of good and evil and largely endorsed gender equality. They were annihilated by the Catholic Church.
Dpvv TIL that there will be a Simpsons/Futurama crossover episode entitled “Simpsorama” that will air in May 2014
wo6jP TIL that knocking on wood was a thing because people used to believe that spirits lived in trees and knocking would give you luck.
LkM0V TIL the "Come and take it" slogan was first used in the Battle of Thermopylae