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TIL France banned an ad depicting Jesus as a female because of its “intrusion on people’s innermost beliefs”

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oxQL TIL A Maryland homeowner caught a runner pooping in his yard, after being questioned by the cops, the runner admitted he had been doing it for 20 years.
OorvL TIL Douglas Gene Williams, an American critic of polygraph tests, was convicted after becoming a target of a federal sting operation to teach agents how to conceal crime
MePN8 TIL of Alfred Holmes, one of Gibraltar's "Officers-in-Charge of the Apes." From 1913 to 1991, these soldiers cared for Gibraltar's macaque population. Holmes fed, nursed, and even trained them. Using eye signals and subtle head movements, he stopped the macaques from taking food offered by tourists.
18mD TIL a Canadian female astronaut was sexually assaulted by a cosmonaut on a training mission. She reached out to the CSA and was told, “That kind of behavior is normal for Russians, and it would be too taboo to complain publicly.”
780GM TIL 90s Pauly Shore film Biodome was based on a real project called Biosphere 2, which was way more interesting than the movie