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TIL Pentagrams were used in Christianity to represent the 5 wounds of Christ, for a few hundred years after his death.

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dJr8 TIL Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon, Da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Neil Armstrong (+ many others) were all Deists. They believed God did not interfere or effect events on Earth - a view seen as herecy throughout most of their lives.
DZOg TIL Maj. Iván Castro is the only active duty blind officer serving in the US Army Special Forces. Castro lost his eyesight in 2006 in Iraq when a mortar round severely wounded him. After being told he’d never see again, he learned to train and serve without sight. He was promoted Captain in 2008.
R1yw TIL the pokemon sableye is based upon the description of a Kentucky family’s alleged encounter extraterrestrials in 1955.
nmQP TIL some birds display ultraviolet feather patterns that are invisible to the naked eye.
j6ZEE TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis.