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mxRVy TIL about Caodaism a Syncretic Religion with about 4.4 million adherents . Their Pantheon Includes Joan of Arc , William Shakespeare, Jesus ,Muhammed and Lenin (among others).
8avwb TIL The NYC Metro Area has a bigger GDP than ALL of Mexico, Spain, or Australia. Effectively, that means that NYC makes more money than a first-world continent.
Wk8b4 TIL Dmitry Glukhovsky wrote the novel 'Metro 2033' when he was 18. He published the novel on his website available for free. This eventually led to a video game deal with 4A Games & a comic deal with Dark Horse comics.
6EwEQ TIL the oldest-known land animal in the world is a tortoise named Jonathan. He lives in West Africa.
0dMGA TIL of Dora Richter, the first transgender woman to have received GRS in 1922/1931 in Germany. She had survived the nazi regime despite the destruction of the sexual research institute and lived to 1966