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TIL that in the USSR there was group call the League of Militant Atheist who spread atheist propaganda, destroyed churches and helped their government detain and kill religious individuals in Russia.

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DJjv TIL that there is a town in the Alps that does not get any direct sunlight for 84 days. However the town fixed that by installing a giant mirror on the side of the mountain.
EgZ1P TIL: The cliched and once popular dog name "Fido" is Latin for "Faithful" and made popular by Abraham Lincoln who is likely the first person to use that name on a dog.
KWyw TIL In 1977 a Chinese woman with no medical degree anonymously found a malaria cure. 38 years later, she was awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine.
e47L TIL Fewer people are killed in the U.S. with all rifles including “assault rifles” each year than with shotguns, hammers & clubs, and hands & feet. (2007-2011 Chart)
LQLE9 TIL that Tennessee, Utah, Florida, Indiana, and South Carolina license plates reverse order of numbers vs letters based on if the plate has In God We Trust on it.