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TIL many Rabbis and historians now believe Abraham, the Jewish patriarch, probably never existed. Nor did Moses. The entire Exodus story as recounted in the Bible probably never occurred.

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wXLY TIL that in 2003, Fox News won, in a lawsuit in appellate court, the right to report false information.
xDOo TIL that Pepsi created a contest where people could win a car if they picked the right key for it from their provided options. However, when a man was able to open it, he was sued by Pepsi, since the contest was supposed to be impossible to win because the right key for the car wasn’t available.
vDe8 TIL: Intuit, the makers of TurboTax invest millions of dollars to lobby against simplifying the tax code.
4X4r5 TIL In 1922, the Bureau of Public Roads commissioned Gen. John J. Pershing to make a map for construction purposes and to highlight which roads in the U.S. were the most important in the event of war. The "Pershing Map" was the first official topographic road map of the United States.
nOvW TIL Mary Toft managed to trick doctors into believing that she had given birth to rabbits. Mary did this by shoving the rabbits up her vagina before pushing them out and ‘birthing’ them.