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TIL that anyone who removes Hawaiian rocks from the islands is said to be cursed. Every year people mail back thousands of pounds of rock, sand, and shells to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, many with reports of how their lives were ruined by the curse.

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ddgZ TIL There exists a picture (taken in 1865) that shows a young Teddy Roosevelt, aged 7, watching the Abraham Lincoln funeral procession from his window in New York City.
KvnB TIL that during the Tlacaxipehualiztli (snake festival), Aztec priests skinned war prisoners and young men wore their skins during 20 days
exX4 TIL X-Men’s Cyclops is a disabled mutant and that his early origin explains that he can’t control his eye beams because he fell out of a plane as a child and suffered brain damage.
Oane TIL In 2002 a 15 year old boy inspired by 9/11, stole an airplane and flew it into a skyscraper in Tampa, Florida. It damaged one office room and he was the only person that died.
p098 TIL a respected German anthropologist whose ‘discoveries’ helped shape our understanding of modern man was found to have falsified most of his data - one skeleton he claimed was from 27,400 BC was later dated to 1750 AD.