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TIL Claudette Colvin. she was arrested for refusing to give up her seat on a bus in segregated Montgomery, Alabama, nine months prior to Rosa Parks. She was not promoted because she was a teenager who was impregnated by a married man.

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NXL91 TIL that Rose McGowan and Joaquin, River, Summer and Rain Phoenix were all raised by their parents in the religious cult known as Family International (formerly Children of God). The controversial group is notorious and has been investigated for child abduction and sexual misconduct.
epE9D TIL the name for XO sauce comes from fine XO (extra-old) cognac, which is a popular Western liquor in Hong Kong. The name is a misnomer since the condiment contains no cognac, and it is not really a sauce in the traditional, smooth sense, but more chunky, like a relish.
R7XNl TIL in the year 2000 the award-winning publication UPI (United Press International) was bought by billionaire cult leader Sun Myung Moon, who claimed to be the second coming of Christ. Mr. Moon has since died, but UPI is still owned by his holding company.
OoexL TIL that in 1888 an Egyptian farmer found a mass grave of thousands of mummified cats. Over 180,000 of them were eventually shipped to Liverpool England and used as fertilizer.
b9KZZ TIL about Makuragaeshi which are Japanese spirits that visit people at night to flip their pillows over. They're mentioned in stories from the Edo period to modern times. In ancient Japan, they believed the soul left the body during dreams and that it couldn't return if the pillow was flipped.