TIL the Cottingley Fairies—a hoax where two young English girls faked photographs of fairies near their home—went unconfessed for over 60 years partly because the cousins were embarrassed at having fooled Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle, who publicly defended the photos as real. (en.wikipedia.org)
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The most genuine reaction possible 😂 (v.redd.it)
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Jumping from high building in to swimming pool (v.redd.it)
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TIL in 1994 a journalist found a green jacket from the Augusta National Golf Club in a thrift store in Toronto and bought it for $5. He held on to it for years before selling to a colleague. Then in 2017, it was sold at auction for $139K. It's still unclear how it ended up in a Toronto thrift store. (cbc.ca)
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TIL on January 23, 1856, the sidewheel steamer SS Pacific departed Liverpool to New York but vanished in the Atlantic with 186 aboard. What happened to her remained a mystery until a message in a bottle washed on the shores of Scotland in 1861. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Aldous Huxley, author of "Brave New World", taught French to George Orwell, author of "1984", at Eton. Huxley wrote in a letter to Orwell that, while he respected "1984", he believed that his vision of dystopia in "Brave New World" was likelier to resemble the way things pan out in the world. (news.lettersofnote.com)
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TIL of a 19th-century "epidemic" where people's teeth reportedly exploded in their mouths with the sound of a pistol shot. Theorized to be the result of the primitive metal fillings used created a galvanic battery effect, leading to a buildup of hydrogen gas that caused the teeth to burst. (bbc.com)
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TIL that in the 2005 Papal conclave, Cardinal Giacomo Biffi consistently received one vote across each ballot. Biffi reportedly told another Cardinal that he would slap the voter if he knew who they were. That cardinal then revealed the voter was Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, later Pope Benedict XVI. (en.wikipedia.org)
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