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TIL The biblical account of the feeding of the five thousand with loaves and fishes is one of the few stories that are recounted by all four of the Gospel writers

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Vb8B TIL: cherophobia (fear of happiness) is an attitude towards happiness in which individuals may deliberately avoid experiences that invoke positive emotions or happiness because they think something bad will happen after.
E1yBw TIL you have to cook lobsters alive because they are full of toxic bacteria that multiply rapidly after death
MWbV TIL Democritus supposed the existence of atoms and the empty space between them in 400BC
Eg6Rp TIL in 1976 Cleveland became the bombing capitol of America due to organized crime members bombing each other
LbZQ TIL Hitler encouraged his close associates to quit cigarettes by offering a gold watch to any who were able to break the habit.