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TIL Jesus is the most mentioned person in the Quran

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x6aQ0 TIL that the Convair Model 118, a tentative flying car from 1947, was shelved because its prototype crashed when a test pilot mixed up the flight engine's fuel gauge with the road engine's and didn't see the former run out. While he survived, this killed interest in the project.
9wVMQ TIL over 80,000 Moroccan men, mostly from the Rif region, fought as soldiers for Francisco Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. They would be instrumental in the rise of a fascist Spain.
N7yAM TIL in the 90s Costa Rica saved a dying forest by dumping 12,000 tons of waste orange peels and pulp (1000 truckloads)
vPyYj TIL about “erotomania”, a rare condition in which patients are deluded into believing that somebody who likely doesn’t know them is infatuated with them.
rRlKy TIL that the most common recurring minor character on Seinfeld is not Newman, or Frank Costanza. Appearing in 109 episodes, Ruthie Cohen is the cashier at Monk's Cafe, and appears in the background in more than double the amount of episodes as the next minor character (Newman, with 48).