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TIL that the Disney park, EPCOT, is an acronym for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow”

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OGNOR TIL that there is archeological evidence that, during the early period of the introduction of Christianity in Scandinavia, craftsmen used soapstone moulds capable of crafting both Thor’s Hammers and Christian crosses to conduct business with followers of both faiths.
DQeap TIL that chemical castration is not some permanent process that burns off an offender's gonads or their ability to function (and reoffend). It's just a medication they take to suppress their sex drive temporarily, and when they stop taking it, their sex drive comes back, and their organs are intact.
BrD8x TIL Crowing first at dawn is a privilege reserved for the highest ranking rooster.
gMpO4 TIL scientists managed to recreate the voice of a 3000-year-old mummified Egyptian priest. They produced a 3D-printed voice box based on a precise scan of his vocal tract, and then used the vocal tract with an artificial larynx sound, synthesising a vowel-like sound reminiscent of a sheep's bleat
16Ml7 TIL of David Icke, an English foorballer who upon meeting a psychic, proclaimed himself "Son of the Godhead", and began to write an extensive series of conspiracies around interdimensional energy beings, and half human reptilians of the global elite, called "Archons"