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TIL of the Jefferson Bible, a de-miracalised version of the gospels created by Thomas Jefferson — that just had the morals and life of Jesus Christ. A copy was presented to new members of Congress from 1904 until the 1950s.

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wokWo TIL If Queen Camilla outlives King Charles she will be the first British Dowager Queen to not also be Queen Mother since 1837. Queen Adelaide’s husband William IV passed the throne to his niece Queen Victoria upon his death.
YpAOx TIL of Iranian painter Mohamed Sciddel who was commissioned to paint murals in the main church in Uruapan, Michoacán and decided to live the rest of his life in Mexico to promote art in the region after being exiled from Iran following the 1979 revolution
OGjA6 TIL about Irdabama, a powerful Ancient Persian (Iranian) businesswoman who, ~2500 years ago, controlled vast estates, traded across the Achaemenid Empire, managing hundreds of workers whilst travelling around Iran and Mesopotamia with her own entourage.
QJ7xL TIL that not only were some WW2 PoW’s brought back to the US, any that were unclaimed after they died were buried at the base where they died. As a result, there are two Nazi soldiers buried at Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, and their headstones have swastikas on them.
DQndg TIL that a team of researchers in New Zealand discovered a fossil of the largest ever species of penguin. Based on the size and density of the bones, it's estimated that it would have weighed 154 kgs or 340 lbs