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TIL that the Salvation Army is an actual denomination of the Protestant Church, uses titles derived from military ranks, and has a CEO.

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16a74 TIL of Stephan Bibrowski, better known as Lionel the lion-faced man due to the 8 inch long hair that covered his entire face. Stephan's mother gave him away at the age of 4 as she had witnessed a lion mauling her husband while she was pregnant with Stephan, and thus viewed him as an abomination.
9Y1m7 TIL of how the U.S. Government set up the first bank for "newly emancipated Black communities" after the Civil War; but in the 1870s, Henry Cooke & Ulysses S. Grant got away with scamming the Freedman's Bank out of $75,000 ($1.77M in 2020), crippling the bank into bankruptcy...
6dJ8 TIL Some orthodox jews take genetic testing before getting engaged. However they arent told the results unless both are positive
YpKQP TIL that the Chevalier d'Éon (French diplomat and spy) lived 49 years as a male and 33 as a female.
R5by1 TIL The saying 'It's all Greek to me' has dozens of localised variations, including 'That's Chinese to me (Dutch)', 'To me this is Turkish (Venetian)', 'Am I speaking Persian? (Hindi)' and 'It's all Hebrew (Finnish).