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TIL homosexuality wasn’t explicitly banned in the old testament until re-translations in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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dDL5d TIL that since 1935, A Christmas Carol has been remade and adapted over 60 times.
0wn9v TIl Nova Scotia gives Boston a Christmas tree every year as thanks. In 1917 a ship carrying explosives exploded near the city of Halifax, killing 1,500 people immediately and hundreds in the next few weeks. The city of Boston immediately sent doctors, supplies, and money by ship and train to help.
Lkvjm TIL that Cillian Murphy was vegetarian for about 15 years prior to working on Peaky Blinders. Saying it was never a moral decision. It was more that he was worried about getting mad cow disease.
YpOnZ TIL an actor accidentally slit his own throat on stage while performing a suicide scene in a play based on Mary, Queen of Scots. The prop knife he was supposed to have used had been switched with a real one. If he’d cut a little deeper, he would have died.
NX8LQ TIL the smallest statue in London of two mice fighting over a piece of cheese might have been created to honor two construction workers who died in the 1860's when they were fighting over a sandwich and fell from the building 🐀🧀