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TIL that the 3rd US President had his own highly edited version of the Bible (the Jefferson Bible)

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xVdV5 TIL that the Catholic Church issued a Papal Bull in 1567 condeming bullfighting as "cruel and base spectacles of the devil and not of man.", with the organisers and attendees barred from it under the threat of being excommunicated.
XEoYj Today I learned that Peter Weller, the original Robocop, has a Master’s degree in Roman and Renaissance Art and is now an art historian.
7NB7 TIL that one of the only senators ever assassinated was Leo Ryan who was killed by Jim Jones’s cult members while they were in the process of committing mass suicide. He had come to investigate reports from concerned family members.
ZRav TIL congenital blindness and schizophrenia do not co-occur.There is not a single case of congenitally blind diagnosed with schizophrenia
wLlZ7 TIL Darwin's Beetle (Chiasognathus grantii) have giant mandibles (more than 1/2 their body length) they use to battle males as they climb trees where females are found for a chance to mate. The mandibles can hook rivals under the wings to throw them off the tree, as well as the female after mating.