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TIL that the key to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is in custodial care of two Muslim Families due to the constant fight between christian denomination.

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PaQg TIL There is a 91 year old woman in Japan who paints every day, scans her images and upkeeps her art blog all by herself.
yQ6xV TIL that Vivendi (the media conglomerate that owns Universal Music Group, Dailymotion, Gameloft, etc.) was founded by decree of emperor Napoleon III in 1853 as a water supply company.
0jAv TIL that on the last flight of the Concorde, Jeremy Clarkson emptied a glass of water on Piers Morgan.
X0M5E TIL about the Time Cube Theory, which was a bogus theory created by Otis Eugene Ray who claimed to be "the wisest man on earth", that a day actually consists of four simultaneous days
j8Aj TIL that in 2010 Microsoft banned a user from Xbox Live for putting Fort Gay (A real location in West Virginia) as his address. Microsoft refused to believe that Fort Gay actually existed, and eventually took an appeal from the towns Mayor David Thompson for the issue to be corrected.