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TIL: Churches Can Get Insurance for Abuse and Molestation Lawsuits

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negMG TIL that the pseudonym Mark Twain actually comes from an archaic name for two fathoms, and that previous iterations of his name included “Josh” and “Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass”.
0wPMv TIL about Aristarchus of Samos, who was the first person ever to hypothesize that the Earth revolves around the Sun almost 2,000 years before Copernicus, as well as the idea that distant bodies like stars were exactly like our own Sun and contained planets.
rN6XM TIL about pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) and their role in driving up prescription drug prices in the United States
YZdx TIL Chef Boyardee received awards for his food from both the Americans and the Russians for supplying them with food during WWII. Although he was unable to acknowledge the Russian award due to the Cold War
wlwJ TIL Japan’s oldest business, temple builder Kongo Gumi, in operation under the founders’ descendants since AD 578, went out of business in 2006.