› added 1 year ago

114

TIL The first Papal visit to a mosque was in May 2001. Pope John Paul II took off his shoes and entered the Omayyad Mosque in Damascus, Syria, to visit the tomb of John the Baptist (who is called Yah-ya el-Mamadan by Muslims).

Read more cbc.ca

via reddit.com

8MX TIL Batman could exist in real life, but only for a few years. This is due to the incredible physical demands being Batman requires.
wLkO6 TIL - There's a group of bikers that come to funerals of fallen soldiers to place their bikes and themselves between grieving families and the religious nuts who protest their funerals: The Patriot Guard
MeQeA TIL San Diego hired a rainmaker to fix its drought in 1916. The floods that followed were the most devastating in the city's history.
neGLY TIL that the 1974 hit song "Kung Fu Fighting" by Carl Douglas was initially recorded as a nonsense b side to another song "I Want To Give You My Everything"until the label stepped in and made it the A Side
epeK5 TIL about a movie called "The Safe Zone", a 2022 short film written and directed by an artificial intelligence