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TIL that Islam is younger than Christianity.

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6Vyl TIL the man whose court case reinstated the death penalty in the U.S., escaped prison the day before his execution, only to be beaten to death in a bar fight that very evening.
V670 TIL that Shakira was rejected from the school choir because her music teacher said that she sounded “like a goat.”
v17GL TIL the tritone was never banned by the Catholic church; it was called "the devil in music" in one medieval music theory text because its vibrations made it technically difficult to sing. The tritone was not literally associated with the concept of evil until Black Sabbath popularized the myth.
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