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TIL that very few educated people since Greek times believed the Earth to be flat. The myth that ppl believed in a flat earth was made up to demonize religion.

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9wNyp TIL that the movie 'Nosferatu' is likely the original source of the notion that sunlight kills vampires.
wLay1 TIL that chicken nuggets were invented by a poultry and food science professor at Cornell University in the ‘60s.
yQR7p TIL President Franklin Roosevelt's german shepard, Major, bit and nearly ripped the pants off the British Prime Minister during a state visit to the White House
e0LJk TIL about one in every 1500 people have something called Voluntarily Piloerection - the ability to consciously give themselves goosebumps. The phenomenon both perplexes and intrigues neurophysiologists by defying conventional understanding of how the unconscious nervous system operates.
lNE5 TIL a man stole a pair of socks worth $2.50 at age 33, was convicted in 1995 and received a life sentence due to the three-strike law as he had two prior convictions for robbery in 1981, at age 19.