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TIL the oldest known depiction of Jesus is graffiti of a man venerating a crucified man with the head of a donkey, accompanied by the caption “Alexamenos worships his god”

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lLlA TIL that the original EverQuest game made a server called Discord. It was a pvp permadeath full loot server with prizes going to the first few players to hit level 50. The devs openly allowed cheats as well. It was a honeypot server to study cheats and then ban the exploiters after.
QJkJ9 TIL that the first historical record of a YO MOMMA joke was 3,500 years ago by a Babylonian student, chiseled onto a cuneiform tablet.
AD9r7 TIL of the European custom of "telling the bees," wherein bees would be told of marriages, funerals, and other important events in their keepers' lives.
pOp8 TIL in China “body fishers” keep the dead bodies of bridge jumpers until customers come to buy the remains of their loved ones.
7rOpp TIL of Sonny Graham, recipient of a donor heart from a suicide victim who went on to marry the suicide victims wife. After 12 years of marriage, Graham also ended his own life.