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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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O0XR TIL After the Titanic sank, the families of the band members were billed By White Star Line for the cost of the uniforms worn as the band members died.
e0vJg TIL that the Boston Bomber, the Unabomber, Terry Nichols and Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán all are being held in the same prison
D1ajr TIL Abba turned down a $1 billion offer to reunite
8aMPX TIL the woman in the famous "Migrant Mother" photo was Florence Owens Thompson, a Cherokee woman and widow who came from Oklahoma to California with her second husband during the Great Depression. Her 10 children all survived poverty and starvation and later bought her a house. She lived to be 80.
wRv6 TIL of Julie D’Aubigny who was a 17th century bisexual French opera singer and fencing master who fought and won at least ten life-or-death duels, performed nightly shows on the biggest opera stage in the world and once took the Holy Orders just so that she could sneak into a convent and shag a nun.