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

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x6JNb TIL: the population density of the United States is less than that of Easter Island.
KYXdB TIL that Billie Joe Armstrong once dropkicked a guy in the middle of a Green Day concert after he saw him roughing up a young girl. He stopped the show and challenged him to a fight before jumping into the crowd.
699Nw TIL that when deaf people experience stroke-related brain damage, they often lose the ability to sign in remarkably similar ways to the different forms of linguistic aphasia (difficulty speaking, forming words, sentences being nonsensical)
7rQJb TIL about the Holomodor, a man-made famine in 1930s Ukraine that killed up to 12 million ethnic Ukrainians. Some scholars believe that the famine was planned by Joseph Stalin to eliminate a Ukrainian independence movement.
gr7jX TIL that the original Pink Floyd managers (Jenner and King) decided to represent Syd Barrett when he left in 1968, dissolving their agreement with the others as they saw no future in the band without Barrett.