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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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x6oX1 TIL John Ratzenberger chose to have his Cheers character Cliff Claven wear white socks in honor of French comic actor Jacques Tati
wRoJ TIL that Iqbal Masih was sold into bondage by his debt-ridden family aged four and escaped when he was 10, after which he went to school and helped 3,000 other Pakistani children escape bonded labor. A symbol of child labor in the developing world, he was shot and killed in 1995, aged only 12.
wLYvJ TIL that astronauts who return to Earth after a long time in space drop things in mid-air and expect them to float.
Egx0 TIL that Mr. T’s real name is “Laurence Tureaud”
ME40 TIL Cartoon Network banned an episode of Cow and Chicken called “Buffalo Gals” which allegedly implied lesbian stereotypes including the Gals being mistaken for men and the line “Oh! the Buffalo Gals, a motorcycle riding gang that randomly breaks into people’s homes and chews on their carpets.”