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TIL in June 2009 the patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Ethiopia, said he would announce the unveiling of the Ark of the Covenant, which had been kept safe in Ethiopia. The following day he announced that he would not unveil the Ark after all, but that he could attest to its current status.

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Kg0R TIL that there is a myth in South Africa that raping a baby will cure AIDS
8lWb TIL that Mark Cuban once criticized someone by saying that they, “Would not even be able to manage a Dairy Queen.” Dairy Queen then took offense to that statement and offered Mark Cuban a chance to manage Dairy Queen for a whole day, which he accepted.
loQe5 TIL the battlecruiser HMS Hood sunk in only 3 minutes resulting in the deaths of 1418 men, and only 3 survivors.
W7J5X TIL that, twice in the 1990s, crews lived in the Biosphere 2 facility to demonstrate how to live in a closed ecosystem, cultivating their fields and making scientific experimentations
j6GWX TIL that George Foreman not only became the oldest heavyweight champion of all time, when he defeated Michael Moorer in 1994, but he also ended Moorer’s 35-0 undefeated record.