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TIL you can pay to bathe in radioactive water in Japan
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TIL "Anamnesis" is the idea that humans possess innate knowledge and that learning consists of rediscovering that knowledge within us. The process of incarnation is described in Neoplatonism as a trauma that causes the soul to forget its experiences (and often its divine origins as well).
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TIL "in Russia, Norway and many northern and eastern European countries synchronized clapping is more popular than random clapping."
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TIL of Reverend Isaac Simmons, an African-American man in Mississippi who was killed in 1944 by a white mob of 6 men who wanted his land of 270 acres Simmons and his family had owned for over 50 years. Simmons was dragged from his home, shot 3 times, and the mob cut his tongue out as well.
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TIL that before the final British soldiers left Manhattan in 1783, one final act of defiance was the nailing of the Union Jack flag to the top of a flagpole and greasing the pole
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TIL the large Hadron Collider has had such bad luck with accidents and animals randomly breaking it that some scientists have hypothesized it's being sabotaged from the future to stop us from destroying the universe.