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TIL Quran explicitly says to love Christians.

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ZlB TIL there is evidence we have a sense of being stared at.
ne9lG TIL that during the Battle of the Wabash in 1791, a force of Native Americans wiped out approximately one quarter of the entire United States Army.
pYYY8 TIL that in the Kingdom of Hungary in 1946, inflation was so high that prices doubled every 15 hours. Something that cost 379 Hungarian pengős in Sep 1945, ended up costing 1 trillion trillion pengős by Jul 1946.
4Xr75 TIL: Pesto can be made with Cashews. If you have allergies, don’t forget to read the label.
4K7w TIL that Anthony Lane, a film critic for the New Yorker, once began reviewing ‘Contact’ (1997) and noted it “v. gloomy,” “odd noir look for sci-fi,” “creepy shadows in outdoor scene,” before realizing he had forgotten to take off his sunglasses.