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TIL: The New Testament in the Bible was originally written in Greek

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5VoQ9 TIL a Chinese man was thought to have died from a lightning strike until his body exploded at his cremation. A piece of metal was found leading to the discovery that a weather rocket, meant to break up hail, had failed to explode & had fallen through the man's roof acting like a bullet, killing him.
4XXJR TIL seamen must keep a daily record of their work known as a Certificate of Continuous Discharge
b64K4 TIL that "I'm A Believer" by Smash Mouth is a cover of a song by The Monkees of the same name
xVOdg TIL that Tom Brady was drafted by the Montreal Expos in 1995
4dxo TIL The guy who voiced the tootsie pop owl invented the artificial human heart