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TIL: The Tomb of Christ is a site in Japan where they claim Jesus was really buried. This is complete with a burial site, Hebrew plaque and an accompanying origin story (complete with Jesus using a body double) explaining his journey to and death in Japan.

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R7bow TIL creation of the most sacred fire in a Zoroastrian temple requires combining flames from 16 different sources, one of which is a funeral pyre; however, funeral pyres are forbidden in Zoroastrianism as corpses are thought to defile the flame.
neGx9 TIL that after the 2015 terror attacks in Paris, the German football team was advised not to leave the stadium they were playing in due to threats on their hotel, so they slept in the stadium on mattresses. The French team they had just played against stayed the night with them, out of solidarity.
j7AX TIL that at the Nuremburg trials, several Nazi leaders achieved genius-level scores on an IQ test
p8EXG TIL that firing squads would always have one gun shooting a blank. This ensures that no one in the group is able to know for sure which of them fired the fatal round, deterring some of the guilt.
9W9D TIL Nazi Germany offered several countries to take in their Jewish population before the Holocaust. No country opened their doors.