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TIL that 666 is not actually the number of the beast - it's 616.

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Qaa6 TIL that the Second Congo War was the deadliest war since WWII with 5.4 million deaths.
WkKw9 TIL there was land bridge between India and Sri Lanka you could pass on foot 600 years ago
xLEo TIL that Disney rejected Back to the Future because the mother/son storyline was “not appropriate”
87jG TIL As part of the War on Terror the song “Killing in the Name” was used by military interrogators at Guantánamo Bay as a form of psychological torture. “The fact that music I helped create was used in crimes against humanity sickens me,” noted Tom Morello.
PL7g TIL that women generally had more legal rights under Islamic law than they did under Western legal systems until more recent times