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TIL in 1977, a woman in New Mexico saw a burn mark in her tortilla that looked like the face of Jesus. She then built and ran the "Shrine of the Miracle Tortilla" until 2006 when the tortilla was dropped and broken during show-and-tell at a local elementary school.

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rgb4 TIL: Scientists Have Discovered Sharks That Live in a Volcano
NlW6 TIL of the almost 200 current member states of the United Nations, the British have, at some point in history, invaded and established a military presence in 171 of them.
Obge TIL that unlike Newton’s formulation that states gravity is instantaneous, it actually travels at the speed of light. If the sun were to instantly disappear, we would continue revolve around it for eight minutes.
9pJm TIL Darwin proposed that nodding for “yes” and head-shaking for “no” is a common cross-cultural gesture because it has its roots in basic human instincts related to breast feeding
70Mp TIL there is a satellite orbiting Earth that is predicted to re-enter the atmosphere in 8.4 million years, carrying a message addressed to the beings/humans and civilizations of the future.