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

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1aLpd TIL the last person to receive a Civil War pension died in June 2020.
WjRA TIL John Cleese rejected a Knighthood (CBE) and said he felt much more honored when a Swiss zoologist named a lemur after him in 2005.
1Vp8 TIL In the late Devonian period (during the evolution of terrestrial plants), there was a ‘wood crisis’. Trees became abundant, took CO2 out of the air, and caused an ice age, simply because the fungi that eventually would decompose dead wood & return the CO2 to the air hadn’t evolved yet.
WJGX TIL that on Christmas, 1979 the first president of Equatorial Guinea had 150 of his opponents killed; Soldiers dressed up in Santa Clause outfits and executed them in a football stadium while amplifiers played “Those Were the Days”
yVVGJ TIL Sniffing the human body volatile hexadecanal blocks aggression in men but triggers aggression in women