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TIL The Quran does not explicitly forbid images of Muhammad

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eXkD TIL that the second verse of the Friends theme song contains the lyric “Your mother warned you there’d be days like these,” despite the first line of the song being “So no one told you life was gonna be this way”.
rN4xM TIL that in the 4th century CE, Roman bishop Acacius of Amida sold the all church's treasures to free 7000 Persian prisoners captured by the Romans during war. The Persian emperor was so impressed by the act that he ordered an end to Christian persecution throughout his empire.
KdJR TIL that in 2006 NASA admitted that they no longer had the original video tapes of the moon landing because they recorded over them.
DnJg TIL that in the Sailor Moon universe, there was an openly homosexual character named Sailor Uranus, and her girlfriend was Sailor Neptune.
P7We TIL the Ottoman Sultan, Khaleefah Abdul-Majid I, declared his intention to send £10,000 to aid Ireland’s farmers. However, Queen Victoria intervened and requested that the Sultan send only £1,000, because she had sent only £2,000 herself.