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TIL the world's second-largest Hindu temple is in New Jersey

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mxWep TIL that in the non-canonical Acts of Thomas that Jesus Christ sells his twin brother Judas Thomas into slavery in order to trick him into going to India.
R5WRj TIL: Harvard conducted a study where they track the health of their students from 1938 to 2017. Happiness and close relationships with family are a bigger factor than IQ, wealth, genes, etc in a healthy life. Good marriages lead to less mental deterioration than stressful ones.
VjV8 TIL that Assassin Bugs kill ants, suck their insides out and attatch the ants corpse to their body. They then rock up to an ants nest undetected as they possess the scent of an ant. While invisible in the ants nest, they eat when they want
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