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TIL in Alaska, lakes outnumber humans by more than 4:1

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P1bjE TIL about the Roman soldier named Pantera. In Celsus' book "The True Word", Jesus was depicted as the result of an affair between his mother Mary and this soldier. Both the ancient Talmud and medieval Jewish writings reinforced this notion by referring to Jesus as "Jesus, son of Pantera"
Men9b TIL 16th century English writers added silent letters to many words to better link them to Greek or Latin, even if no such link existed, such as the b in debt or s in island
GYBw4 TIL Kate Bush topped the UK charts at just 19 y/o with her debut single 'Wuthering Heights', the first female artist to do so with a self-written song, and in 2016 she had 8 albums in the UK Top 40 simultaneously, the third-most for any artist, behind only Elvis and the Beatles.
xOvB TIL a male tiger in India adopted a litter of tiger cubs. He shares his food with them and plays with them. This has never been observed before.
D1jJg TIL that Thomas Aquinas, in his 'Summa Theologica', wrote that eating breakfast meant you committed the sin of 'praepropere' (eating too soon); it was associated with gluttony and the presumption that these people had lusty appetites.