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TIL that experimental/psychedelic band The Flaming Lips released 13 copies of a 24 hour song in a $5,000 human skull.

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GYPGE TIL that there is a second Bethlehem of Galilee, a small town just a few miles west of Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph lived. An antiquities biblical archeologist proposes that this is the true birthplace of Jesus rather than Bethlehem of Judea, more than 70 miles away, south of Jerusalem.
jNdLa TIL In 1989, two teenagers found a new born baby abandoned on a doorstep, swaddled in towels with her umbilical cord still attached. They handed her over to authorities. She was less than 12 hours old. 20 years later, the abandoned child- now grown up, tracked them down and thanked them.
dDyRB TIL that, due to the use of a singular word "frog" instead of the plural "frogs", some Jews believe that the Plague of Frogs from Exodus was one giant frog.
XEG8j TIL The Dutch Navy once Surrendered to French Cavalry
8Al8 TIL, Nutella was invented during WWII, when an Italian pastry maker mixed hazelnuts into chocolate to extend his chocolate ration.