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TIL pentagrams have been found on Sumerian pottery dating back to 3500 BCE

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x6LDB TIL about Strom Thurmond filibuster. On 28 August 1957, US Senator Strom Thurmond conducted the longest speaking filibuster ever by a lone senator, at 24 hours and 18 minutes in length, in opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957. The filibuster failed to prevent the passage of the bill
rRNY0 TIL the film Back to the Future is banned in China because it features time travel
D1x4p TIL The Simpsons are yellow because Matt Groening thought it would be a perfect way to catch the attention of people flicking through their channels looking for something to watch.
yQWRe TIL about Blackie a cat later renamed Churchill after, Winston Churchill stooped to bid farewell to Blackie after the declaration of the Atlantic Charter on the HMS Princes Of Wales on 14 August 1941.
OGJQ7 TIL that Morzillo, the horse Hernán Cortes rode in the conquest of Tenochtitlan, was worshipped as a thunder deity by a nearby tribe for over a century