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TIL Swearing on the bible, is against the bible

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6EVp7 TIL that after 2 years of using a Catalan mercenary company to fight the Turks, the Byzantine emperor betrayed the company and tried to wipe them out in 1305. The mercenaries went on a rampage so destructive that the monks of Mount Athos only lifted their ban of Catalan citizens in the year 2000.
kJAK5 TIL about George Francis Train, a man who ran for president on a platform of "Spread-Eagleism."
M7K5W TIL about “Franco’s hajj”. A program instituted by the fascist dictator of Spain General Francisco Franco to sponsor Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina in a bid to court the Islamic World. The program lasted for several decades.
9wyxB TIL that Samuel L. Jackson planned to become a marine biologist before becoming an actor. He is currently the highest-grossing actor of all time.
J4Kk TIL that there’s an edition of Windows called “Windows XP™ for Submarines”, and it’s run on the United Kingdom’s nuclear missile submarines