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TIL there is a “Gospel of Judas” not found in the Bible that speaks of Judas as the only one of Jesus’ disciples who fully understood His teachings. He turned Jesus over to the Romans because Jesus asked him to. It was discovered in an Egyptian cave in the 1970s, dating to the 2nd century AD

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KOmGJ TIL the period 1955-1972, the development of nuclear rocket engines in the USA began with the "Rover" project. The first experimental nuclear engine was named "KIWI" and experiments were performed on it until 1964. They constructed a compact nuclear reactor with U235 carbide in a graphite housing.
NBoM TIL that after the extinction of the dinosaurs, there was a turtle that was the size of a car and could eat crocodiles.
QJvLe TIL, that about 86 percent of animals and/or species on earth have not been discovered yet
wrlP TIL In exchange for Pepsi products, Russia gave the company 17 submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer making Pepsi become, for a few days, the 6th largest military power in the world by number of diesel submarines.
b9d5E TIL Tree DNA was used in US federal court to connect a log poacher to the stump of the tree he illegally cut down and that now volunteers are working on creating tree DNA databases for future prosecutions.