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TIL Dubai forms a rare physical link to a legacy of Christianity, which is thought to have spread across the peninsula from 50 to 350 CE following trade routes. Certainly, by the fifth century, Oman had a bishop named John.

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REN4 TIL the United States of America has a mystery that one writer calls “the biggest animal cold case in the nation’s history”: cattle/animal mutilations. In Kansas, for example, cattle were found with “ears, tongues, genitals and udders all neatly removed. Often, the scene was bloodless and trackless”
4k8Ww TIL that the Mental Patients' Union was established by patients at an English psychiatric hospital to advocate for patient's rights and oppose unethical treatments.
V5BB TIL the website UrbanDictionary.com has been used in court cases to define slang words that are not found in dictionaries.
7jpp TIL of Gregor MacGregor, a 19th century confidence trickster who fooled over 500 people over 5 years to buy land in a fictional Latin American country called Poyais he claimed had been made ruler of. About half of the people who bought land died. He made a fortune, and was later tried and aquitted.
w0B6 TIL that the CIA once turned down a ‘Freedom of Information Act’ request that inquired about Osama Bin Laden’s “fairly extensive” porn collection collected in the raid of his compound in 2011.