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e06Gg TIL if "Jedi" was accepted as a religion by New Zealand's 2001 census, it would have been the second-largest religion behind Christianity in NZ
E1kpV TIL of Gennady Korotkevich, currently the world's top competitive programmer, derived Archimedes theory of buoyancy in a national programming competition in his 2nd grade.
K9bR TIL that the Dwarves in the Tolkien universe are supposed to represent Jewish people. Tolkien stated:“The Dwarves of course are quite obviously—wouldn’t you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic.”
VMNAG TIL Grand Guignol was a theatre founded in 1897 in Paris, which specialised in gory horror acts. After WW2, audiences waned and it got closed in 1962. This is because by that time, many already heard or witnessed the real horrors of war. Thus, they didn’t find interest in such theatre anymore
1ppX TIL Daft Punk were admitted into the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and were individually awarded the rank of Chevalier, or knight.