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TIL Pope Clement VII personally approved Nicolaus Copernicus’s theory that the Earth revolves around the Sun in 1533, 99 years before Galileo Galilei’s heresy trial for similar ideas.

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PYavZ TIL that Napoleon IV wanted to fight against Nazis but he was in exile and banned from France. He then joined the Foreign Legion with a false name and when France capitulated, he joined the French Resistance.
xVVXD TIL despite repeated warnings by safety inspectors to install smoke alarms and sprinklers, the Haunted Castle at Six Flags Great Adventure had burned down in 1984 killing 8 teenagers.
oBPKW TIL diamonds are used as conflict gemstone's because they are much more common than other stones -- not because of their value.
ylPa TIL: In 1999, the U.S. government paid the Zapruder family $16 million for the film of JFK’s assassination.
4aN6 TIL The Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad