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TIL that many Jehova’s Witnesses consider Smurfs to be demons and that toys and pictures of Smurfs will come alive to harass families and bite their children at night.

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bgeZ TIL members of the Nation of Islam believe white people were created a few thousand years ago by an evil black scientist named Yakub
vPRxB TIL I learned for the Voyager program engineers computed 10,000 potential trajectories. This was done not only to optimize the journey but also avoid having voyager reach a planet at Christmas or Thanksgiving time.
WkNw8 TIL that the physical shape of the human ear selectively filters out frequencies outside of the human vocal range.
nyQB TIL Senator William Spong of Virginia, to prevent his name from being mispronounced as “Sponge”, made his first act as senator introducing a bill called the Long Fong Spong Hong Kong Song Bill, which would protect the songwriters in Hong Kong. This was, of course, cosponsored by Sen. Long and Fong.
gMaYb TIL the last name of "How to Win Friends and Influence People" author Dale Carnegie was not originally named Carnegie - in an example of how to influence people, he changed the spelling from Carnegey to resemble the name of the more influential Andrew Carnegie