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TIL Reindeer herders in Finland are painting their reindeer’s antlers with reflective paint to cut down on deer-car collisions.

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oVLr TIL that L. Ron Hubbard explicitly said that he considered Scientology a business, and only pursued the “religion angle” for monetary reasons. In his personal correspondence, he called Scientology’s status as a religion “entirely a matter for accountants and solicitors”
VeJQ TIL of black musician Daryl Davis, who dissolved Maryland’s KKK by befriending its members.
BPKL TIL that the English language went through a period where the sound of long vowels changed dramatically, it is known as the Great Vowel Shift and it happened ca. 1350 to 1600.
6EJYQ TIL Joan of Arc wanted to fight the Hussites, a Czech-based Christian sect deemed "heretical" by the Catholic Church. In a letter to the Hussites, she said that were she not busy fighting the English, she would march to Bohemia to relieve the Hussites "of either their heresy or their lives."
5V8jk TIL that 20,000+ years before Sumerian writing, Ice Age hunter-gatherers used cave art and symbols to create a lunar calendar tracking animal mating and birthing seasons.