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TIL that there is a version of the Bible translated into Hawaiian Pidgin called “Da Jesus Book”

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7rg7r TIL of Ryan M. Kelly who found out he won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for his photograph of the Charlottesville's attack on the same day he quit his job as a photo journalist to go work for a brewery.
KYrRG TIL there are three types of tears: basal, reflex, and psychic. Psychic tears, produced when we're sad, contain leucine enkephalin, a natural painkiller that helps us feel better.
l7pXr TIL of the Crazy Horse Memorial, a mountain carving monument of an Oglala Lakota warrior, has been under construction about 10 mi from Mt. Rushmore since 1948. Crazy Horse's face is about 50% large than those of the Mt. Rushmore presidents.
XEX6 TIL modern hospitals use maggots to clean wounds when antibiotics won’t work.
ZWQB TIL that a neutrino particle could pass through a block of lead 1 light year thick and never interact or be stopped by a single atom.