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TIL Jesus' name in real life was Josh

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RpM9 TIL Craig Harrison of the UK’s Household Cavalry killed two Taliban insurgents from a distance of 2,474 m/2.47 km (8,120 ft, or 1.54 miles) in November 2009. They are the longest confirmed sniper kills recorded in human history.
7brx TIL that after the French Revolution, the scientific community implemented along with the metric system, metric time, which failed miserably due to the fact that people did not want to deviate from a 7 day week to a 10 day week.
OGnmX TIL that a well-respected British academic known for his work on the dead sea scrolls, argued that Jesus was a mushroom
p4j4 TIL a bomb went off in a commercial airliner, blowing it into several pieces and fell for 3 minutes before crashing on a frozen mountain top. One woman survied and now holds the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute, at 33,330 feet.
D1b8V TIL about Nimblewill Nomad who, starting at age 61, walked 34,000 miles, including walking from the Florida Keys to Quebec. At age 83, he became the oldest person to have hiked the entire 2,200 mile Appalachian Trail.