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TIL that the inverted Latin cross often used today as an anti-Christian symbol originated from the death of Saint Peter, who, when sentenced to death, requested to be crucified upside-down as he believed that he was unworthy of being killed in the same way as Jesus Christ.

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OowY1 TIL Lake Chad used to be part of a larger lake promptly called "Mega-Chad"
JYprk TIL that a photographer took photographs of Robert Kennedy’s assassination. The LAPD confiscated these photos for evidence. When he asked for them back, he was told they’d been destroyed. He sued and during the trial it was proven they tried to provide fake photos and his original photos were stolen
ner9r TIL about the Barbara Jordan, the first African American elected to the Texas Senate after Reconstruction, the first Southern African-American woman elected to the US House of Representatives, and the first African-American woman to be buried in the Texas State Cemetery.
PGLL TIL that in all figs we eat, there is a corpse of a fig-wasp inside that has deposited it’s eggs inside the fig meanwhile pollinating it. The wasp never leaves the fig again and dies inside.
oVBK TIL The Smashing Pumpkins donated 100% of ticket sales for the ‘Adore’ tour in 1998 to local charities for each show, totaling $2.8 million