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TIL There is no physical description of Jesus in The Bible.

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0w9Zy TIL "Miss America" is actually abbreviated. Originally it was, "The Most Beautiful Bathing Girl in America," and the winner was judged solely on their bathing suit.
GAxe1 TIL Jupiter's magnetosphere is the largest object in the solar system. If it glowed in wavelengths visible to the eye, it would appear two to three times the size of the Sun or Moon to viewers on Earth
ne4ZP TIL of Frances Gabe. In the 1980s, she built and patented the world’s only self-cleaning home. The patent contained 68 inventions. She died in obscurity last year at 101 years old.
grDnL TIL Leonardo da Vinci never gave the Mona Lisa to the person who commissioned it
6EMZW TIL that the hit song Children by Robert Miles was composed to calm rave parties at the end of the night and reduce car accidents on the way back home