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TIL that an archaeologist and biblical scholar suggested that Jesus is a mushroom. “The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient ‘sex-and-mushroom’ cult.”

1660P TIL in the 1960s David Stein sold three watercolors purportedly by artist Marc Chagall to an art dealer. They were fake as Stein had painted them that day. He may have gotten away with it, but Marc Chagall just happened to meet the dealer on that very same day. Stein became an artist after prison.
R77ew TIL in 1989 fifteen major airlines would not show the scene in Rain Man where Raymond Babbitt talks about aviation safety.
W71oA TIL that Marvel obtained the trademarks "Hulk Hogan", "Hulkster" and "Hulkamania" for 20 years while the WWF agreed to no longer refer to Hogan as "incredible" or "Hulk" or ever dress him in purple or green. Marvel also obtained $100 for each Hulk Hogan match and 10% of any earnings under this name.
v1Kpr TIL There are 2 missing nuclear bombs that fell into the Atlantic Ocean on July 28, 1957 and are roughly 100 miles away from Atlantic City, NJ.
dD44E TIL that baby kangaroos are born as fetuses and climb into their mothers pouches to finish gestation. Mother kangaroos can suspend their pregnancies and produce four different types of specialized milk at one time to satisfy the developmental needs of individual offspring.