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TIL: Muslims don’t believe Jesus was crucified, they think God replaced him with some poor bugger who looked like him.

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kJaZE TIL. The Margraviate of Brandenburg, an impoverished electorate of the Holy Roman Empire, tried colonizing Africa in the late 17th century.
16X0P TIL that because of moist, isolated conditions ancient bat poop in caves is still wet and gooey and can be collected and tested to tell about ancient ecosystems. Things like small insect parts and plants are still present and discernible in the wet mounds sometimes dozens of feet thick.
6EbOJ TIL DVI can carry audio if DVI to HDMI adapter is used for certain hardware
eYrn TIL: Scientists agree - Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
rB8w TIL that Josip Broz Tito after surviving assassination attempts wrote to Stalin: “Stop sending people to kill me. We’ve already captured five of them, one of them with a bomb and another with a rifle … If you don’t stop sending killers, I’ll send one to Moscow, and I won’t have to send a second.”