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TIL about Apocryphal Gospels: ancient writings about Jesus not recognized by the Church

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XEB4E TIL Spaniards abolished forced military conscription with massive civil disobedience
o0MY TIL that in the 19th century China came extremely close to being ruled by the leader of a Christian cult who believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It took the deadliest civil war in history with 30 million dead to defeat him.
1xBO TIL that Tom Hanks has a brother, Jim Hanks, where a majority of his work is to do voice overs that sound like Tom Hanks.
oBQWW TIL that of the four Olympic Games German cities were selected to host, two were cancelled due to World Wars 1 and 2, one was hosted under a Nazi flag, and one was hosted by West Germany.
1Vp8 TIL In the late Devonian period (during the evolution of terrestrial plants), there was a ‘wood crisis’. Trees became abundant, took CO2 out of the air, and caused an ice age, simply because the fungi that eventually would decompose dead wood & return the CO2 to the air hadn’t evolved yet.