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Today I learned about the "Immovable Ladder" a symbol of division within Christian faith.

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j5Gp TIL The United States Congress only has a job approval rating of around 15%, but Congressional incumbents are re-elected at a rate of roughly 95%
16nRW TIL the Prinz Adalbert a German Naval ship during WW1 was torpedoed by a British submarine, it exploded and sank immediately with the loss of 672 crew. There were only three survivors.
m1vXp TIL that the hooded pitohuis is a poisonous bird. In 1990, when museum workers tried to put the bird in a museum, their hands began to burn. They are the first documented poisonous birds.
41EX TIL the word “sanction” is an auto-antonym, a word with two contradicting meanings. It means both to approve of an action, and to penalize for an offense.
j59R TIL in the 70s the US tapped an underwater comm line located between two USSR harbors using navy divers deployed from a submarine. Submarines returned with divers every month to retrieve the tapes, and The soviets never found out despite having a network of sonar sensors!