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TIL that Lebanon currently has no President, and the office has been vacant since 2014

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wYGY TIL In the apocryphal Book of Enoch, angels procreate with women and create a giant warrior race. The fallen angels also teach men to make weapons, how to apply eye shadow,and how to make jewelry. The book ends with them being imprisoned, and the earth being destroyed by a flood.
Voop TIL that the Smurfs were essentially communists. They all had “defined roles”, they all “dresse[d] alike”, and they had no economy. Also the Smurfs nemesis, Gargamel, represented capitalism with his desire to “exploit the Smurfs”.
R50L6 TIL that only around 15% of French words are Frankish in origin
W791Y TIL that a man divorced his wife of 70+ years after finding her secret affair letters with another man from 60 years earlier
JYR0V TIL modern cruise control was developed by an engineer frustrated by his lawyer who kept speeding up and slowing down the car as he talked