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TIL: Early Jews and Christians didn't view Hell as a place of eternal punishment. You either gained eternal life by going to Heaven or you didn't get eternal life at all. Hell was where your soul went to stop existing.

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Ad8B TIL that the 1800 election for the US President was an exact tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr, so the vote went to the House of Representatives. The House voted 35 times, all of them ties, until Jefferson won on the 36th vote.
QNM5a TIL that in 1969 Cuyahoga River in Cleveland Ohio literally caught on fire, which resulted in the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency the next year
VM94Q TIL: Eugene Debs was a 5 times socialist candidate for president, a union organizer, and orator. While at his sentence hearing for sedition, he said, "While there is a lower class, I am in it, and while there is a criminal element, I am of it, and while there is a soul in prison, I am not free."
KOMmQ TIL that in 1966, Kenneth McDuff murdered three people and was sentenced to death. His sentence was later commuted to life, and he was paroled in 1989. He went on to murder at least four more people, was caught in 1992, once again sentenced to death, and executed in 1998.
rNEW0 TIL in 2015, Billy Mitchell filed a lawsuit against Cartoon Network, saying in the series Regular Show, a character who cheats at video games infringed on his likeness. Years later, the legitimacy of a number of his records was called into question, leading to them being stripped