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TIL Guy Fieri Officiated 101 Same-Sex Weddings in a Single Weekend

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8ebLa TIL there are an estimated 40.3 million enslaved people in the world today, three times greater than the number during the transatlantic slave trade
J1v0j TIL that in Christian tradition, Zacchaeus, the short guy who climbed a sycamore tree to see Jesus, and who Christian kids usually call a "wee little man", later became the first Bishop of Caesarea
DorY TIL Lockheed was originally “Loughead” but changed later to prevent mispronunciation
141r TIL a noblewoman (a widow of a samurai lord & descendent of a long line of ninjas) recruited, trained, & led an all-female group of 200-300 ninja agents—consisting of ex-prostitutes, orphans, & civil-war victims—who were successfully deployed for the Takeda clan against rival warlords in 1500s Japan
4kvba TIL that the techichi is the ancestor of the chihuahua and were thought to see into the future by the ancient Toltecs who kept the dog as a companion.