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TIL about snake handling, a practice where parishoners handle highly venomous snakes as a show of their faith.

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69Del TIL the origins of the dessert named Pavlova are unknown with both Australia and New Zealand claiming to be the country of origin.
VZpp TIL that comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 collided with Jupiter in 1994, after being broken apart from Jupiter’s tidal gravity. One fragment struck the planet’s surface with the estimated energy of 6 million megatons of TNT (600 times the world’s nuclear arsenal) and created a dark spot over 12,000 km across.
QJweL TIL that when the British East India Company subjugated India, they had just 35 staff members
b6R89 TIL that blueberries (and cranberries) are true berries, produced from a single ovary with non permeable skin. Raspberries, blackberries, and strawberries, on the other hand, whose tissue holds hundreds of ovaries with permeable surfaces, are made up of smaller fruits.
xVe11 TIL a Tennessee magistrate judge once ordered a woman to change her son's name from "Messiah" because "The word Messiah is a title that has only been earned by one person, and that one person is Jesus Christ."