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B6Le TIL when the Bible was translated into American English, homosexuality was still considered a perverse disorder. It was with this mindset that the translators interpreted the Greek word ‘arsenkoitai’ for a homosexual, even though theologists have argued the word is way more likely to mean molester.
R7N84 TIL Leonard Cohen originally wrote 80 draft verses for his song "Hallelujah." He chose several of the most relevant and interchanged some of them depending on where he was playing.
M7gGB TIL Bonn was chosen as the West German capital as they felt that locating the capital in a major city like Frankfurt or Hamburg would imply a permanent capital and even weaken support for reunification.
d8ewZ TIL that the first woman to establish a bank in the USA was an African-American named Maggie L. Walker in 1903. The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank was one of the few to survive the Great Depression and, after a merger, still exists today.
4ow6 TIL That Michael Caine’s real name is Maurice Micklewhite