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TIL if people worship other gods, the Bible says you must not only kill those people, but kill everyone else in the town, and their animals, then take all of the town’s possessions to the middle of the public square, then burn all of the possessions, then burn the whole town down, and never rebuild.

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1a8BP TIL that in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, Iran condemned the attacks and expressed solidarity with the victims. In Greece, an EU member state, soccer fans tried to burn a US flag and booed during a moment of silence.
V8B0 TIL that the Jack Nicholson film ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ was filmed in an actual mental hospital and many of the extras were actually mental patients
wVW1 TIL A college student put a fake quote on Wikipedia soon after the death of the famous composer Maurice Jarre, and several journals put the fake quote in their articles about Maurice Jarre’s death. It went unnoticed until he said something about it.
6nnm TIL of Lake McDonald where the water is clear and the bed is covered with multi - colored pebbles made of clay containing iron. (pics and article)
DXpv TIL in 1969, Carl Sagan wrote an essay under pen-name “Mr. X” about how “marijuana produced a very rich array of insights” in the book “Marihuana Reconsidered”, who enjoyed smoking marijuana quite frequently