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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.”

Y7a67 TIL The Utah War (1857–1858), or the Mormon Rebellion, was an armed confrontation between Mormon settlers in the Utah Territory and the armed forces of the US government.
0dxWv TIL about Albert Negahnquet, or Dom Bede, the first Native American Catholic priest. Ordained in 1903, he studied four years in Rome, then returned to the U.S., wanting to educate the Potawatomi people about the Bible in their own language. In 1925, he renounced his vows to marry a Texan widow.
V9op TIL Diesel and House Heating Oil are the same fuel. The difference is Heating Oil is dyed red and does not have a road tax applied to it making it cheaper. You can use it in off road machinery but it is illegal to use in a truck or car utilizing public roadways.
9wPWQ TIL that 80% of Army personnel records of soldiers discharged from November 1, 1912 to January 1, 1960 were lost in a fire at the National Personnel Records Center (NPRC) in 1973. No duplicate copies of these records were ever maintained, nor were microfilm copies produced.
a8PGo TIL that there exists a " Great Wall of Vulva" 8 metre (26 feet) long wall sculpture which consists of four hundred plaster casts of vulvas