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TIL Quran explicitly says to love Christians.

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PYBGw TIL about Jan Davis and Mark Lee, two NASA astronauts who were secretly married shortly before their launch on the space shuttle, becoming the only married couple to travel to space together
67BJ TIL that a year after its initial publication in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt (then-president of the U.S.), loved the children’s book “The Wind in the Willows” so much that he wrote the author saying that he had “read it, reread it, and have come to accept the characters as old friends”.
BgwAx TIL Some People Used the Postal Service to 'Mail' Their Children | HISTORY
aw8vL TIL the Fisker Automotive failure lost the US government at least $600M
VMpDD TIL Trees emerged 350 million years ago. It took another 60 million years for wood-eating bacteria to evolve. Trees between this period eventually turned into the most of the coal we use today.