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TIL there is a town in Japan called Shingō where the “last resting place of Jesus Christ” is located. Jesus’ “descendants,” the Sawaguchi family, claimed that Jesus’ brother, Isukiri, took his place on the cross while Jesus fled to Japan, became a rice farmer, started a family, and died at 106.

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VMPX8 TIL that in 1858, over 200 people in England were poisoned with arsenic, after buying and eating accidentally-poisoned sweets. 21 of them died. The event contributed to the passage of the 1868 Pharmacy Act in the United Kingdom and legislation regulating the adulteration of foodstuffs.
E14Mo TIL 14 years prior to Titanic sinking, the book Futility told the story of an unsinkable ship "Titan" which also struck an iceberg on it's starboard side in the North Atlantic on an April night. The fictitious ship closely matched the Titanic's length, weight, speed, capacity, and lack of lifeboats.
1aGBD TIL: the reason some people feel the need to pace while on the phone is because when you talk on the phone, your brain is lacking the visual feedback it usually receives from face-to-face conversation, and begins to translate emotional responses into physical movements.
GApL1 TIL Johann Sebastian Bach's "Toccata and Fugure in D minor" became his best-known work ultimately after inclusion in Walt Disney's Fantasia some 200 years later and may not have actually been written by him
gYo4 TIL alcohol produces a myopia effect that causes intoxicated people to respond almost exclusively to their immediate environment and limits their ability to consider future consequences of their actions.