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TIL that the Bible has been translated entirely into LOLCat speak and is now available in book form.

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BrxRk TIL Elena N. Bodnar has a US Patent for inventing a brassiere, that in an emergency, can act as a pair of protective face masks and she was awarded the Ig Nobel Public Health Prize for it in 2009.
4XyEJ TIL the park that contains the Confederate "memorial" on Stone Mountain was opened exactly 100 years after Lincolns assassination.
WkBlo Today I learned Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Had two different paths. MLK was about protesting and assimilating into white culture and Malcolm X was about Just being proud to be black. Both were assassinated. MLK by a white man, and Malcolm X by his own people.
xVB9o TIL there's a Code of Ethics & Integrity for Spiritual Practitioners/Guides
mxM0P TIL that the main stairwell at St. Pancras London Hotel (The Midland Grand Hotel, which opened in 1873), was used in Christopher Nolan's 2005 film Batman Begins, as the Arkham Asylum stairwell