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TIL There is no physical description of Jesus in The Bible.
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TIL that in the original Grimms' Rumpelstiltskin (1812), when the imp's name was revealed, he fled in surrender, never to be seen again. In 1857, the Grimms rewrote a new, more brutal ending, wherein the Imp, in defeat, plants one foot in the ground, grabs the other, and tears his own body in half.
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TIL that the Amazon River got its name from the Amazons of Ancient Greek Myths, due to an encounter with natives which took place in 1541
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TIL 2,000 year-old seeds were discovered in Israel around 1965 to be held in storage for the next 40 years. After they were planted, a tree that has been extinct for 1,800 years sprouted.
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TIL that Snakes and Ladder was originally invented to teach people about karma
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As America has turned away from searching for extraterrestrial intelligence, China has built the world’s largest radio dish for precisely that purpose.