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TIL Mary is mentioned more in the Quran than in the entire New Testament and is also the only woman mentioned by name in the Quran

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No86 TIL In 2006, 74 yr. old Luciano Pavarotti was asked to perform at Italy’s Winter Olympic’s opening ceremony. Later that year he was diagnosed with inoperable, stage 4, pancreatic cancer; however, he decided to perform anyways. It was his last performance.
1a80r TIL The Inventor of the frontal lobotomy won a Nobel Prize in medicine
VMRe0 TIL bed bugs have dagger penises, and a Swedish researcher decided to use pheromones to leverage their anatomical “feature” to kill one another by means of “uncontrolled shagging”.
wPZ8 TIL that people in England previously called football, soccer.
yEwX TIL that the DA that prosecuted Bruno Mars for cocaine possession was fired for possession of crack cocaine and an unregistered firearm.