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TIL about Manichaeism, which was once a major world religion. Beliefs included the idea that God is not actually omnipotent, harvesting is an act of murder against plants, and Adam and Eve were the children of demons.

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kL5e TIL that the company who created the Etch A Sketch was about to go bankrupt, right before they signed a deal with Pixar to have their product shown in Toy Story in 1995. The scene was only 12 seconds long, but it gave the company a 20% sales increase that saved the company.
1gAD TIL that Kim Jong-il supposedly shot a 38 under par in golf his first time trying the sport. A feat that required no less than 5 hole in ones. The accomplishment is 25 shots better than the world record. Having been satisfied with his preformance, he promptly retired from the sport forever.
NXrlQ TIL about The returning soldier effect. It is a phenomenon which suggests that more boys are born during and immediately after wars.
A8pl TIL Right before Marie Antoinette was guillotined, her last words were “Pardon me sir, I meant not to do it,” because she had accidentally stepped on the executioner’s foot.
4kPLN TIL Thomas Ernest Boulton and Frederick William Park were Victorian cross-dressers and homosexual men from upper-middle-class families. Their trial and acquittal were a "significant moment in the history of the hesitant emergence of a public discourse of the homosexual as an identity."