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TIL that President Lincoln essentially bribed Congress to outlaw slavery by offering lame-duck congressmen cushy government jobs in a then-legal form of corruption known as the patronage system

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G7xG TIL that Slayer released their album “God Hates Us All” on September 11th, 2001. King’s inspiration wasn’t “anti-christian”, but rather the idea that “One day you’re living your life, and then you’re hit by a car or your dog dies, so you feel like, ‘God really hates me today’.”
loLE1 TIL that Necrophoresis is a behavior found in social insects – such as ants, bees, wasps, and termites – in which they carry the dead bodies of members of their colony from the nest or hive area. This acts as a sanitary measure to prevent disease or infection from spreading throughout the colony.
P1AOE TIL the first Roman to be hailed as Imperator, which was the title that would eventually evolve into what we know as a Roman Emperor, was Aemilius Paulus in 189 BC for his campaigns against the Lusitanians.
v1rJR TIL in the early 90s John Travolta's career was over until director Quentin Tarantino asked to meet. Quentin made John play board games from his past movies and had him recite famous lines to his past films. At the end of the evening Quentin offered the part of Vincent in Pulp Fiction.
QLBk TIL in 1950, Pope Pius XII confirmed there was no conflict between Christianity and the theory of evolution, and the Church supports the idea of theistic evolution.