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TIL that the the royal anthem could also be called “god save the king”

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N8jP TIL that although it was decided by early Christians not to be put in the bible, there is a gospel called the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. This gospel is about Jesus’ childhood and has stories of Jesus cursing other children and making them die and in one case making another child wither into a corpse.
BoKK TIL NASA will send a probe to an asteroid, land on it, and harvest a boulder from it. Then bring it into the moon’s orbit for spacewalking astronauts to collect samples.
WX0B TIL The common goldfish can live for several decades given that it is properly taken care of.
Wk058 TIL that "Live Aid", the benefit concert held for the Ethiopian famine in 1985, (while well intended) actually gave ~£150 million to the Ethiopian Dictatorship. They used the money to mostly buy weapons from the Soviet Union and further fueled their civil war.
KONKJ TIL that an annual supply of bottled water for a person who consumes 8 glasses a day would cost approximately $200; the same amount of tap water would cost approximately $0.33.