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TIL People of Iceland supposedly were reluctant to embrace Christianity for some time largely over the issue of giving up horse meat after Pope Gregory III banned horse meat consumption in 732 AD, as it was a major part of many pagan rites and sacrifice in Northern Europe.

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WrGB TIL A man lost a legal battle to keep his strip club open, then walked into an in-progress city council meeting and paid court ordered legal fees($6,400), with 4 $100 bills and 1.65 tons of pennies.
xMnB TIL astronomer Ptolemy thought that the gods, out of curiosity/boredom, would peer down at the earth from between the spheres; when this happened, stars would slip out of this gap, flashing towards the earth. Shooting stars meant that the gods are now paying attention to whatever you would wish for.
6EEx7 Asking for a friend.
R5ra TIL writing cursive script can improve brain elasticity to improve one’s ability to read, write, concentrate, and speak intentionally.
NG78 TIL as a PhD student, American mathematician George Bernard Dantzig showed up late to a statistics class and mistook two famous unsolved statistics problems as homework. He solved them and turned them in a week later, believing his assignment was overdue.