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TIL that scholars of Aramaic argue that the Qur'an is mistranslated: the original Aramaic word doesn't promise martyrs an award of 72 virgins in heaven, it promises them 72 raisins.

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0Z6M TIL that after the 1995 Saturday Night Live season, NBC fired Adam Sandler and Chris Farley from the show.
mx4Ax TIL about the culture of suicides on the Golden Gate Bridge; in a study of survivors--after 26 years--over 90% polled were still alive or had died of natural causes; nearly every survivor says they regretted jumping immediately
5YZp8 TIL the quote "The further a society drifts from the truth, the more they will hate those that speak it" was not written by George Orwell. It is misattributed as quoted by Orwell. It was quoted by Selwyn Duke.
GYdN7 TIL Jeff Bezos is making about $321 million a day, $13.4 million an hour, $222,884 a minute, and $3,715 a second this year. The largest single-day increase in Bezos's net worth is $13 billion, which he achieved on July 20, 2020.
KOgO6 TIL in 2013, a prisoner in Sweden escaped “because he had a toothache and wanted to go to the dentist.” He broke out prison, visited the dentist, and turned himself back in where he received an extra day to his month-long sentence as punishment.