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TIL that in 1968, science fiction writer and atheist Isaac Asimov published “Asimov’s guide to the Bible”. Asimov treats the secular aspects of the Bible with intellectual instead of theological commentary.

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4mkw TIL That Sean parker, founder of illegal music filesharing site Napster, is now the person at Spotify who helps form deal with major record companies. He orchestrated deals with Universal, Warner and others.
KP4w TIL By paying a fee of $300 you could officially and legally avoid the civil war draft. You could also find a substitute to fight in your place, a tactic the rich often used to avoid being enlisted. To encourage recruits to join, even Abraham Lincoln paid a man $500 to enlist on his behalf.
ewOJ TIL that a Singaporean pilot, Tsu Whey Ming, committed murder/suicide by intentionally crashing the 737-300 he was piloting, killing all 104 people on board, and that the Indonesian authorities covered up the report prompting the U.S. NTSB, in an unprecedented move, to publicly contradict them
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