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TIL The religiously unaffiliated now make up almost a quarter of the US population.

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pYWRp TIL of James Reeb, a Universal Unitarian minister and Civil Rights activist who was murdered by segregationists while heading to the Selma to Montgomery marches. Despite three men being tried, they were acquitted by an all-white jury, and his murder remains officially unsolved.
XEOxX TIL of Prisencolinensinainciusol. An Italian song made of nonsense words that's meant to sound like what English sounds like to non-English speakers
KOWp4 TIL silent film star Harold Lloyd performed his stunts in the 1923 film Safety Last! effectively one-handed due to losing his right thumb and index finger while holding a bomb for publicity pictures four years earlier
bOvZ TIL there is a couple in the US who have a 20 year-old child who has never aged physically or mentally past the toddler stage
oRVdR TIL that court dwarfs were strategically positioned next to the king or queen during public appearances and ceremonies, which, due to their small stature, had the effect of visually enhancing the monarch's presence. They were owned, traded, and delivered as gifts to kings and queens.