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TIL about cargo cults, where indigenous people of small tropical islands would perform elaborate rituals to mimic air traffic control and marching patterns after witnessing airplanes drop supplies on airforce bases during world war II.

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8a8g8 TIL Easter and April Fool’s Day have not fallen on the same day since 1956, but it will happen again in 11 years.
awJYZ TIL the UK spent £2.5m in the 1980s to imprison a consensual gay S&M community. The dominant partners were charged with assault and the submissive partners were charged with aiding their own assault.
0deJL TIL in 2013 a surgeon in the UK was struck off and convicted of assault after branding his initials into two patients livers. It was only discovered when 1.6-inch (4cm) initials were discovered by another doctor on an organ that he had transplanted failed.
b6vkQ TIL Jim Marshall, inventor of the Marshall amplification system widely used by rock guitarists, contracted a form of tuberculosis that affected his bones when he was a young boy. For treatment, he was kept in plaster casts from his ankles to his armpits until he was a teenager.
awXwZ TIL of "The Family Shakespeare", a 19th century version of Shakespeare's works that attempted to edit them to make them suitable for children. Very popular during the 1800s, it is now widely criticized as an example of literary censorship.