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Today I learned that the New York Times Best Seller List isn’t determined by sales numbers

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6EAMw TIL there is a difference between a cemetery and a graveyard. A graveyard is on church grounds next to the churchyard
b985p Today I learned that the Oneida silverware company was founded by a free-love community in upstate New York, led by a Protestant preacher from the 1840's, who believed there was a connection between sex and spirituality. He experimented with perineum pressure during intercourse to block ejaculation.
DQM7e TIL The first non-Christian, non-Caucasian superhero in American comic books was Kismet (Man of Fate), an Algerian superhero who debuted in 1944.
xVNgB TIL The Antonov A-40 was a Soviet attempt to allow a tank to glide onto a battlefield after being towed aloft by an airplane. The tank had to be stripped most of it's armament, ammunition and headlights, however the prototype still failed.
ne7BB TIL: one of the Marines in the iconic raising of the flag at Iwo Jima was an American Indian and Kris Kristofferson memorialized his life in a song.