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TIL that the 'Baphomet Sigil' aka the pentagram with the goat in it is actually trademarked by the church of satan

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oBXYK TIL that Varina Davis, wife of Confederate President Jefferson Davis during the US Civil War, was marginalized due to her dark Welsh complexion, eventually became a Yankee, and accidentally became a good friend of the widow of Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
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