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TIL Jesus is the most mentioned person in the Quran

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p8RPp TIL: Mark Hamill visited a dying fan in the hospital and answered every question as Luke Skywalker because the fan couldn't tell reality from fiction anymore.
VPb4 TIL that insulting the Thai King or anything related to the monarchy of Thailand can get you imprisoned with serious jail time
J1QWB TIL the ampersand (&), also known as the "and" sign, originated as a ligature (two or more graphemes or letters that are joined into a single glyph) of the letters 'e' and 't' to form 'et', Latin for "and".
l7j5K TIL that the French monarchy fell five times and was restored four times in the span of a century, from 1771 to 1871.
wLDE7 TIL Fred Rogers proposed to his wife Joanne via letter. When she received it, Joanne rushed to a payphone to respond. She was so nervous that when Fred answered the phone she was focused on the phone booth graffiti and greeted him by saying, "Shit." Fred laughed and she agreed to marry him.