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TIL Public nativity scenes are often the victim of baby Jesus theft. Some churches have had to chain their baby Jesus down to deter theft while others have added GPS tracking to their baby Jesus.

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N7XXb TIL when The Human Centipede was released, TV3 news in New Zealand interviewed a doctor if the human centipede was medically possible.
nvgo TIL African Americans make up 13% of the American general population, but 42% of the American homeless population.
e0bxL TIL that 40% of all Americans and 76% of African Americans are vitamin D deficient
0Vav TIL: The Dead Sea Scrolls, prized by Jews, also talks about Gilgamesh, the Babylonian hero, as a real person who died in the Flood. He receives dreams of his impending doom, making it a possible prequel for his journey in his Babylonian Epoch.
N0jE TIL a lawyer sought out a 90yo lady who agreed to give him her apartment if he paid her $500 each month for the rest of her life. She became the oldest living person ever, living for another 30 years and even outliving the lawyer who by then had paid her $180,000 – twice the value of the apartment