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TIL William Shakespeare may have helped translate part of the King James Bible.

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xVoK1 TIL that Buddhist monks are banned from reincarnating without government permission in China.
lodnN TIL the Latin phrase "annus horribilis" is used by world leaders to call the worst year in living memory. For Queen Elizabeth, it was 1992, the year when Windsor Castle caught fire and Princess Diana and Prince Charles' marital problems became increasingly public
O7lg TIL that NASA hires a man to sniff everything that they send to space. If he doesn’t like the smell, it doesn’t go to space.
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