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TIL Eric Clapton had to identify Stevie Ray Vaughan's body at the morgue after his fatal helicopter crash.

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YpnNv TIL of the Cathars, a medieval Christian sect notable for its belief that the God of the Old Testament, the Creator, is evil, and perhaps Satan. Instead, they worship the New Testament God, who they believe created the spiritual world, and is truly omnibenevolent.
4g1X TIL Quentin Tarantino thinks Death Proof was his worst film. Vowed he’ll retire before he makes another movie that bad.
Zr7G TIL about Marcus Garvey, a political leader who died from a stroke after reading an obituary of himself that was mistakenly published in a newspaper
kNNW TIL that Marcionites, an early Christian sect, believed that the god of the Old Testament was a separate entity from the god of the NT, and that the physical world was his evil creation.
jN1NR TIL that the designations “left” and “right” in politics come from the seating arrangement during the French Revolution.