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TIL that according to the Infancy Gospel of Thomas, as a child Jesus killed two other children out of anger. When Mary and Joseph's neighbors began complaining, he caused them to become blind

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b9aeN TIL that loose lips did not sink ships: "There’s no evidence of shipping losses due to talkative civilians during World War II."
jP1p TIL crows are smart. They have episodic-like memory, fashion tools to harvest food, and can tell one human from another by facial recognition.
LkLe0 TIL that New Zealand has more gangs per capita than any other country in the world, with about seventy major gangs and 6,500 patched or prospective gang members in the country of 4.8 million.
RNg8 TIL Janis Joplin left money in her will for a funeral party - the Grateful Dead performed
Ooj71 TIL Mud or “dirt” daubers are harmless wasps that rarely attack humans, females prey on spiders to feed their young sometimes fitting up to 25 in a single cell, and when their larvae reach maturity the new adult burrows their way out. Blue dirt daubers prefer black widows.