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TIL as a teenager, noted skeptic James Randi found a pastor who claimed he could read minds. After performing the same cold-reading trick on the parishioners, the pastor's wife called police who then jailed him.

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raK1 TIL The domesticated dog evolved from a tamer version of the gray wolf. Based on DNA evidence, researchers currently believe the dog was domesticated in Asia at least 15,000 years ago, with some scientists arguing that dogs and humans have been partners for as long as 100,000 years.
4kADX TIL; Taylor Swift’s Eras tour performances at Lumen Field in Seattle on 22 and 23 July 2023 generated seismic activity equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake
dv5E TIL of the Stacks Project. It is an open-source textbook with ~4700 pages, made by many mathematicians with the intention of collecting all the prerequisite knowledge required to understand an extremely abstract mathematical object known as ‘algebraic stack’.
p8lne TIL Australia had a micronation called Hutt River that once even issued its own stamps, driver's license and passports. It even had a foreign office in the US. It had about 30 citizens.
N714M TIL: When Texas surrendered the land currently known as the “Oklahoma Panhandle”, it was actually unowned for 40 years. Officially called the “Public Land Strip” during that time but often referred to as “No Man’s Land”.