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TIL that Bill Cosby is on the US Library of Congress “Living Legends” registry, for those who “have provide(d) examples of personal excellence that have benefited others and enriched the nation in a variety of ways”

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ne1Gd TIL that the dogma of Immaculate Conception refers not to how Mary became pregnant with Jesus but to the assertion that Mary herself was born without original sin.
y8nM TIL that there are other photos of the Tiananmen Square tank man, showing the true size of the forces he stood up to as well as others fleeing in the foreground as he approaches the tanks.
grDW TIL that devices have been developed to remove the blur from Japanese porn in real-time, revealing otherwise obscured genitals
l545 TIL Gene Roddenberry gave a list of “do nots” to the Next Generation writers which includes not writing about sorcery, psychic powers, mad scientists, and swords.
WmgY TIL: The Libyan desert once had a ‘lake of glass’, caused by a meteorite hitting the desert. A piece of this glass is in a pendant in Tutankamun’s tomb.