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TIL that Omnism, a belief system, is the recognition and respect of all religions; Omnists say that all religions contain truths, but that no one religion offers all that is truth.

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xV95o TIL that because of the availability of soda fountains in the Eastern US when soft drinks became popular, Easterners referred to the drink as soda. As the midwest did not yet have them, the drink was called pop because of the sound a cork or cap makes when being removed from a bottle.
GpJQ TIL Galileo sent two coded message to Keppler, that Saturn has rings, and that Venus has phases (circles the sun, not the earth), which Keppler incorrectly decoded as Mars has two moons and Jupiter has a big red spot. Although not what Galileo had written, both would later be proven true.
x66y1 TIL in 2019, Ariana Grande became the first artist since The Beatles to claim the top 3 spots on the Billboard Hot 100. The last time the honor was earned, the #1 song was about how "money can't buy me love" vs "7 Rings" where Grande declares "retail therapy my new addiction."
b9JYa TIL the word "lozenge" is another name for "diamond shaped". We call cough drops lozenges because very early cough drops were often shaped like diamonds.
WdVB TIL that in 500 million years there will be no more total eclipses due to the fact that the moon is drifting farther away