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TIL the US Simulated a Bioweapons Attack in Operation Dark Winter, and it Did Not Go Well

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JY4xQ TIL the heir apparent of Ottoman Empire fought in WW2 and participated in the Normandy landings as an American soldier.
VNLm TIL that an archaeologist and biblical scholar suggested that Jesus is a mushroom. “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient ‘sex-and-mushroom’ cult.”
LvrQ TIL men on OkCupid follow the Standard Creepiness Rule almost exactly
RBla TIL of John Rabe, a Nazi party member who is credited for saving 250,000 Chinese civilians during the Nanking Safety Zone.
6Z8Y TIL that 3 billion years ago, 2 black holes 19 and 31 times the mass of the sun collided, creating a monstrous black hole and rippling the fabric of spacetime.