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TIL Quran explicitly says to love Christians.

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MAy8 TIL that Whale vomit is worth tens of thousands of pounds and is used in the productionof perfume
9Yknm TIL U.S president Martin Van Buren was raised in a Dutch family and therefore spoke Dutch as his first language. He is the only U.S president to have spoken English as a second language.
4kXLJ TIL the backing vocal chorus of CPL 593H in Roxy Music’s Re-Make/Re-Model refers to the number plate of a car that Bryan Ferry saw, with a pretty driver
QNAbX TIL There is still a 1948 St. Moritz Winter Olympic Gold Medallist alive today, Trude Beiser of Austria, who won the Women's Combined Alpine Skiing.
v1wor TIL that chainsaws were originally created to help with childbirth. If the baby was to large to fit through the birth canal, then the doctors had to cut parts of the pelvic bone with a chainsaw. Also, the woman that was giving birth was not given any anesthesia through this procedure.