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TIL Nobody was burned at the stake during the Salem Witch Trials. Most people convicted of witchcraft were hanged and one man was crushed with stones.

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wLQDE TIL that musician Moby claimed in his second memoir to have been in a relationship with actress Natalie Portman when she was 18. Portman denied it, saying “my recollection is a much older man being creepy with me when I just had graduated high school.” Moby canceled his book tour and apologized.
JYnyv TIL that musical prodigy Alma Deutscher was the subject of her linguist father's language experiments. He never told her the sky was "blue" in an effort to understand why ancient cultures never used the term for the sky. Her perceptions and name for the sky, "white", were reported in his 2010 book.
JYY4B TIL In 2006, The FBI planted an informant pretending to be a radical Muslim in a mosque, and the Muslims in the mosque reported him to the FBI.
pYyLA TIL that the first documented infringement of the Volstead Act was less than an hour after it came into force, when $100,000 worth of whisky was stolen by armed men.
x6ejg TIL That China had a very significant role in helping the US defeat Japan in WWII, and that China suffered over eight million casualties.