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TIL The first Atheist literature was written by a Catholic Priest on his deathbed

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d8OAZ TIL despite her repeated claims to be more than 85% correct, a 2013 article found that "psychic" Sylvia Browne was accurate in 0/33 of her predictions. For example, she had predicted that she would die at age 88; she died at age 77.
6Ejwl TIL In the original book Uncle Tom's Cabin, Tom was actually an honorable man put to death for not telling the location of two escaped slave women. It was only in later adaptations he was portrayed as a house negro and his name became synonymous with being a servile race traitor.
4kNo TIL the insult “Douchebag” was originally a derogatory term for women who were promiscuous.
wLp7E TIL the Dick's motto means "Yet my hope is unbroken"
5VN5B TIL the trawler Lurongyu 2682 was the site of a mutiny in 2011 where crew members beat up their captain due to poor conditions and killed the cook who tried to intervene. In the ensuing month, trying to prevent a counter-mutiny, 16 of the 33 crew were killed and 6 jumped ship out of fear.