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TIL Phantom time hypothesis - The events from AD 614 to 911 may never have occurred at all.

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M7GWV TIL in the 1630s, Cardinal Richelieu grew weary of watching his dinner guests pick their teeth with their table knives, grinded down the end, and invented the modern dinner knife
KYGm9 TIL the Chandra X-Ray Telescope captures X-ray photons at a calculated angle, using the same ancient technique as stone-skimming, otherwise the X-rays would pass straight through the mirror.
Br59k TIL Lewis Keseburg, one of the survivors of the Donner Party that practiced cannibalism, started a brewery, a hotel, and a restaurant after his rescue.
M7YAm TIL in 1977 George Lucas made a deal with Steven Spielberg, 2.5% of A New Hope's profit for 2.5% of Close Encounters of the Third Kind's profit (George thought Close Encounters was certain to outperform A New Hope). This deal netted Spielberg over $40M dollars. He still earns money from it today.
DQOjp TIL: Long Hundred is 120 and was previously referred to as Hundred in Germanic languages