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TIL that Christian, Judaic, and Islamic texts all ban interest on loans

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7rXXM TIL in 2013, a 9 year-old British girl passed through Turkish customs with a toy passport with gold teddy bears on the front that identified her as a unicorn. Her mother accidentally handed over the passport that the girl had made for her toy unicorn, and the customs offіcer accepted and stamped it
ZoDp TIL that due to the effects of zero gravity, the heart becomes 9.4 percent more spherical in space
0wJKv TIL that a member of the Nazi party is buried on the slope of the holy Mt. Zion in Jerusalem. Oskar Schindler is credited with saving over a thousand lives in his factories during the Holocaust.
M74WA TIL that Australia had a large inland sea called the Eromanga Sea during the Cretaceous Period.
GYJO7 TIL that nearly 150 years later, someone was killed by a cannonball from the American Civil War