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TIL American soldiers would wrap suicide attackers from the Moro Muslim group in the Philippines in pig skin to make them unfit to go to heaven and deter potential future attacks by them

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dy5K TIL that there is a Russian remake of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia
1Rpr TIL that Reddit named a whale Mister Splashy Pants via a Greenpeace contest. Greenpeace didn’t want that to be the name of the whale, but the publicity was too good to turn up.
6Kr8 TIL that “orange” isn’t the only English word with no perfect rhymes. There are also silver, purple, month, ninth, pint, wolf, opus, dangerous, marathon and discombobulate.
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X0DwR TIL that all representations of the Egyptian god Aten were accompanied by a sort of footnote. It stated that the art was only an imperfect representation of something that transcended nature, and could not be fully or adequately represented.