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TIL : The Ark Of The Covenant is claimed to be located in the church St. Mary of Zion in Aksum, Ethiopia. A guardian monk is appointed for life by his predecessor and then confined to the chapel of the Ark of the Covenant for the rest of his life, praying before it and offering incense.

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oBrnA TIL actress Jodie Foster began talking at 9 months, taught herself to read at age 3, landed her first gig as the Coppertone Girl in a commercial at age 3, got an Oscar nomination at age 12, attended Yale, and has an ancestor that came over on The Mayflower.
6E5YZ TIL about Juan Pujol Garcia, a spy who single handedly saved thousands of lives during D-Day by using his made-up network of spies to convince the Germans that another attack was going to happen in Calais instead of Normandy. He was also the only person to be decorated by both the Axis and Allies.
eyDg TIL that four teenage girls lied to have an innocent man convicted of murdering a child. They never apologised, claiming they did it “for a laugh”.
4QZa TIL that Andre the giant once drank 119 beers in 6 hours, that’s one every 3 minutes, passed out and when they couldn’t move him they put a piano cover over him and let him sleep it off.
8e9yP TIL about a successful professional fisherman born without legs or hands, and uses no prosthetics (video in comments)