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TIL that Ventriloquism was originally considered a form of Necromancy.

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GYQd5 TIL about Rishi Sharma, who is going around interviewing every WW2 vet he can before they all die.
5Y1jB TIL about Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens. During the Nazi Occupation, the Archbishop spoke out about the deportation of the Jewish population in Greece. When threatened by the Nazis to be executed by firing squad, he sarcastically responded with a request to hung instead as it was "tradition".
VB6ap TIL a South African hunter led an expedition in Zimbabwe where they encountered a charging herd of breeding elephants he shot at the elephants, and one of the elephants lifted him with its trunk. Another hunter shot the elephant, causing it to collapse on Botha, crushing him to death.
Pd1G TIL over 60 percent of Chinese consumers also say that they are willing to pay more for products labeled “Made in USA” than for those labeled “Made in China”.
XE6rj TIL about The Epic If Gilgamesh. The oldest surviving work of literature in existence dating back over 4,000 years. It features a demigod hunting for immortality and an account of a great flood very simular to the biblical one.