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TIL there is a gospel according to Mary Magdalene, that is not included in the Bible

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vOXD TIL The N64’s venerable Goldeneye contains a fully working (though inaccessible) ZX Spectrum emulator complete with 10 games.
VBZr0 TIL about Unserdeutsch (“Our German”) — the world’s last surviving German colonial-era creole. It developed in German New Guinea as a mix of Standard German, English, and New Guinea Pidgin, and today only around 100 speakers remain in Australia and 10 in Papua New Guinea.
yVyBV TIL about that time a British Airways flight got grounded because of a smelly poop
ANRXx TIL that an English chemist named James Price claimed to be able to turn mercury into silver or gold. When asked by members of the Royal Society to perform the experiment in front of credible witnesses, he reluctantly agreed, only to drink poison in front of them instead.
KOmjB TIL Reinhard Heydrich was the architect of "The Final Solution". He was tasked with the deportation of the Jewish Community from Germany and what he came up with has been the one of the most horrific act in the history of mankind.