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TIL: Mariam Bin Laden was the first woman to swim the Red Sea

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Brye TIL Senators disrupted a Hindu Prayer in the senate
awAgL TIL of the "Jesus nut", a helicopter part so important, that if it were to fail in flight, to only thing left for the crew to do would be to pray to Jesus.
1aNPO TIL: In the State of California sneaking into a movie theater, leaving an unpaid bill at a restaurant or using a ski slope without paying are all examples of the crime of "defrauding an innkeeper"
b9y1p TIL Using lasers, Stanford scientists transformed hydrocarbon molecules in oil and natural gas into pure diamonds.
gvEX TIL that beer bottles are brown in order to protect the beer from UV rays, which causes it to spoil. However, green and clear glass offers virtually no protection.