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TIL: 13 nations in Europe have Blasphemy laws with punishments ranging from fines to imprisonment.

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6ERZm TIL George Miller the director and co-creator of the Mad Max series has personally only won 1 Oscar award. Miller won the award for best animated feature for directing Happy Feet. He also directed the sequel to Babe, Babe: Pig in the City.
Omje TIL female ants and bees are more closely related to their sisters than their own daughters, which explains eusocial behavior.
5YyWD TIL between the 16th and 18th centuries, the Catholic church exhumed skeletons from catacombs and decorated them with gold and precious stones to serve as relics for saints. While some of the corpses may have been early martyrs, most actually did not belong to anybody with religious significance.
59XQ TIL that there are more blacks on welfare in the US than any other race despite being ~13% of the population.
OOQ4 TIL Clair Cameron Patterson was counting lead isotopes in rocks to find the age of the earth, after finding the age of the earth he also found out there was unhealthy amounts of lead in the atmosphere caused by tetraethyl lead, Patterson campaigned to stop the use of tetraethyl lead and won in 1978.