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TIL the apatheism is not caring whether or not god exists

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LkOod TIL a possible origin of the name Cerberus (the multi-headed dog of the Greek god Hades) is the Proto-Indo-European word k̑érberos, meaning "spotted". Hades' dog might have literally been named "Spot".
vP59r TIL that many early phone lines were "party lines" that anyone who picked up the phone could listen in on; customers had to pay an extra monthly fee to upgrade to a private line.
OyoR TIL in the 50’s, there were so many Congressional hearings on Communists and homosexuals infiltrating the government that one congressman said: “I do not know what homosexuals are, but I never saw anybody get as much free advertising in the Congress of the United States in all my life.”
Y7pbx TIL that the founder of Celestial Seasonings tea was in an extraterrestrial cult and the ideas from the cult’s source text were the inspiration for the quotes on the teabags.
Oo184 TIL the original story of Aladdin in One Thousand And One Nights, was actually set in Western China and the main character is a young Chinese Muslim.