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TIL that the salvation army uses donations to fund anti-gay lobbying and prioritises this over helping people.

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rRxKy TIL Macques have a vocal tract capable of spoken language but lack the brain power for it.
pYyJG TIL that Garry Shandling was offered his own late night chat show in 1992 but turned it down in order to create a sitcom about a fictionalized version of himself who did take the offer
volD TIL a farmer in 1898 discovered a Viking runestone under the roots of a tree and it dates to 1362, suggesting Vikings were the first to discover America.
DQ5VV TIL Genghis Khan Cooled the Planet by Wiping Out 11% Of The World’s Population, He depopulated so much land that giant forests grew up and scrubbed about 700million tonnes of carbon from the atmosphere.
5YvLp TIL: In 2006 a lost Christian gospel was translated and read for the first time in over 1500 years. In The Gospel of Judas, Jesus says the Abrahamic God is an evil lesser God named Saklas that created humanity, but that there is a higher God named Barbelo that he is the Son of.