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TIL: There are 7 Bible verses about dragons.

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neRQr TIL that when Berlins infamous Spandau Prisons last inmate, Nazi Rudolf Hess, died, the entire site was demolished, ground into powder and dumped in the sea to stop it becoming a Nazi shrine. A supermarket for British Troops was put in it's place, who nicknamed it 'Hessco's' (after Tesco's)
d8ewZ TIL that the first woman to establish a bank in the USA was an African-American named Maggie L. Walker in 1903. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank was one of the few to survive the Great Depression and, after a merger, still exists today.
d8ee8 TIL that USPS launched a site that allows you to adopt wish lists/letters to Santa from low-income children.
eARE TIL that “Rubber Duck Debugging” is when a programmer explains code to a rubber duck in hopes of finding a bug.
78Ggx TIL that 152 black cats auditioned to be in a film adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe's short story "The Black Cat"