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TIL of Pope Night, an anti-Catholic holiday celebrated on November 5th in colonial America. It evolved from Guy Fawkes Night (November 5th), the night of the failed Gunpowder Plot.

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TIL of Pope Night, an anti-Catholic holiday celebrated on November 5th in colonial America. It evolved from Guy Fawkes Night (November 5th), the night of the failed Gunpowder Plot.

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TIL of the Circumcellions, a radical early christian group who condemned poverty and slavery and advocated canceling debt and freeing slaves. They also provoked fights with strangers to die a martyr’s death.

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TIL During WW1 the British government outlawed landscape paintings, fearing that depictions of the British countryside would help the Germans plan a land invasion. Hundreds of artists were arrested and artist Alfred Hagn was sentenced to death after being found painting with invisible ink.

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TIL that Wolverine first appeared in a 1974 Hulk comic as a Canadian government super-agent. His mutant backstory and role in the X-Men were developed later, after the character became popular.

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