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TIL "Happy Buddha" is not really the Buddha, but a Chinese monk who carried a sack to give rice and sweets to children, like our Santa.

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O9k7 TIL Black Sabbath’s Iron Man is about a man who goes to the future and sees the destruction of the world. When returning to his own time to warn people he is turned into iron and thus mocked. He decides to destroy the world bringing about the end he tried to prevent.
OBO1 TIL wikipedia has banned all users and IP addresses affiliated with the Church of Scientology
Xb6E TIL that when William Frantz Elementary School integrated in 1960, all but one teacher refused to teach while a black student was enrolled. Barbara Henry, 28, was the only one willing to teach six-year old Ruby Bridges as a class of one.
9oXm TIL there is a full-sized replica of Stonehenge in Texas, appropriately named “Stonehenge II”
l7571 TIL that in Barcelona, exist a public fountain that pump liquid mercury instead of water and is protected by a glass