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TIL: There’s a theory that the serpent mated with Eve in the Garden. And that’s how Cain was conceived

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X0Bo6 TIL that when invited to his Harvard class of 1962 reunion, Ted Kaczynski (the Unabomber) RSVP'ed, putting his occupation as "prisoner" and his 8 life sentences as "awards".
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