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TIL there is a religion called Christian atheism. Practitioners believe in essentially the same things as traditional Christians except that the Bible is completely metaphorical and that God and/or Jesus is an allegory for human morality rather than a real being.

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R7dD6 TIL of Le Viandier, a recipe collection credited to Guillaume Tirel, a master cook to Charles V, the oldest extant version of which is from the late 13th/early 14th century. It contains the first detailed description of an entremet, small dishes served between courses we'd refer to as dessert now.
8arVb TIL that the term to describe anyone who is unfamiliar with sailing or who simply lives on land is not “land lover” but actually “land-lubber”. A "lubber" is a 14th century derogatory word to describe a clumsy or stupid person.
lo7Dr TIL 6 masterpieces for solo piano were discovered to great excitement, and confirmed by the leading experts to be genuine works by Haydn. They were later proved not to be by him, and are now largely ignored; despite them being genuinely original music which had the aficionados enthralled.
vn54 TIL In 2012, investigators discovered Wal-Mart de Mexico had bribed various government officials in order to increase growth in the country. They found a paper trail of hundreds of suspect payments totaling more than $24 million. Wal-Mart executives in the US tried to bury the matter.
awngb TIL that the Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust, the first of its kind in the US, was formed in 1961 by a group of Holocaust survivors who met during ESL classes at Hollywood High School. Their personal artifacts, photographs, and memories became the museum’s initial primary collection.