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TIL St. Augustine, in the 4th century, wrote that Christians should not interpret Genesis literally because if science proved it otherwise, Christian witness would be gone.

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0wx7y TIL that in 1990, Katya Mayorova was crowned as "Miss KGB", the world's only holder of a security services beauty title. She was described as "wearing her bulletproof vest with an exquisite softness", with one of her many charms "her ability to deliver a karate kick to her enemy's head"
YAO7 TIL That Banting and Best sold away their rights to profit off insulin for $1 and today it can cost a person living with diabetes as much as $400 a month for their own insulin needed to survive.
oRVgA TIL of Emperor Liu Ziye, who granted his sister a harem of 30 young men after she complained about the emperor getting thousands of concubines but she could only have one husband
DQDLg TIL that American President Calvin Coolidge confused the entire world when he declared, "I Do Not Choose To Run For President In Nineteen Twenty-Eight" a year before the election
OlLL TIL that the Sun is actually white, it just appears yellow to us through the Earth’s atmosphere