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TIL: After Lamb Chop’s Play-Along host Shari Lewis’ passing, her daughter began to perform with Lamb Chop to keep her character alive.

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rNmYo TIL excavations near the city of Nazareth unearthed 100,000 year old human remains. The human skeletons were associated with red ochre which was found only alongside the bones, suggesting that the burials were symbolic in nature. This is the earliest evidence of symbolic burial ever discovered.
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N7LE TIL that from World War II and every U.S. conflict since, only four military chaplains have been awarded the Medal of Honor – all Catholic priests, who refused to abandon wounded men in combat.