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TIL of a man who was Jesus’ contemporary who performed miracles, healed the sick, rose from the dead, and preached love and kindness, but whose popularity never took off

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woAL6 TIL Yellowstone’s famed thermal pools can melt flesh and bone. In 2016, a tourist illegally searching for a swimmable hot spring fell into a portion of the Norris Geyser Basin, where his body was dissolved by the boiling, highly acidic water. His wallet and shoes were all that remained of him.
R5Wol TIL that Project Gutenberg Australia has no formal relationship with Project Gutenberg, and contains many works not available in the latter due to difference between Australian and American copyright laws.
oB0o7 TIL that Carrie B. Shelton was the Woman Who Became Governor 11 Years Before Women's Suffrage
9YJEX TIL In 2010, a thief broke into the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris and stole five paintings worth €100 million ( $123 million USD). Pierre Cornette de Saint-Cyr, commented, "These five paintings are unsellable, so thieves, sirs, you are imbeciles, now return them." The art has not been recovered.
1aD4X TIL During the 1960s the US government sprayed chemical weapons throughout poor neighborhoods of St. Louis without the residents knowledge as part of a chemical weapons test.