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TIL 63% of Arab Americans are Christian

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Bge9W TIL in Medieval Christian art sometimes depicts Christ as the grapes in a winepress, his blood flowing as wine
E6j7 TIL that D.W. Griffiths, who made the racist pro-KKK film “The Birth of a Nation”, responded to his critics with subsequent films that preached social justice and the first ever movie about an interracial love story.
9ZZQ TIL there is a pastor in South Korea named Jong-rak who created a baby box that he attached to the side of his house to collect mentally handicapped or unwanted babies to prevent them from being abandoned on the side of the road and left to die.
Y7ydd TIL that much like champagne, the term "haute couture" is strictly protected by France
Qw59 TIL that despite containing a sizable population that despises homosexuality and Western liberal values, Zanzibar’s tourism industry thrives because of Queen fans that visit the island to see Freddie Mercury’s birthplace.