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TIL the show VeggieTales focused on retelling Old Testament Bible stories because the creator's mom did not want to see Jesus as a vegetable.

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rNNP1 TIL that during the Civil War, Asa Tift, a notable Salvager from Key West, Florida, and his brothers financed a ship to be built for the Confederates in Mobile, Alabama. However, after the Unions victory at Vicksburg, Tift and his brothers decided to blow up the ship rather than let it be captured.
4XOBN TIL Imperial China was the first nation to implement a system for civil service examination, testing knowledge from History to Military subjects. The British East Company got interested and used it for their admissions. Now, its the base model for similar exams throughout western nations to this day
wJV6 TIL of the Sonderkommando photographs - four blurred photographs taken secretly in August 1944 by an inmate in Auschwitz II-Birkenau, and along with a few photographs in the Auschwitz Album are the only ones known to exist of events around the gas chambers.
e0Jbg TIL Tom Brady was drafted by the Expos right out of high school. The Expo's General Manager claimed he had the potential to be "one of the greatest catchers ever."
wKMJ TIL Physicist Richard Feynman memorized pi up to the 762nd digit, where there are six 9’s in a row, just so he could joke, “…9, 9, 9, 9, 9, 9 and so on…”. For this reason, this sequence of 9’s is named the Feynman Point.