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TIL about the Gospel of Eve, an almost entirely lost book from the New Testament apocrypha. Dating to the 2nd-6th century AD, an early Christian Gnostic sect used it to justify free love and eating semen as a religious act

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VBlMm TIL in June, 1889, Vincent van Gogh painted The Starry Night. Three months later, the Nintendo company was founded to produce and market playing cards.
oBNK TIL Michael Bolton from Office Space is also the voice of Dr. Wernstrom and Scruffy the Janitor on Futurama (and several other characters)
N7j98 TIL that scientists are and have been working on ways to record dreams. They have even recorded shapes through and other images through fMRI machines. One day soon, maybe we can record our dreams.
0wEoN TIL that women in Saudi Arabia were prohibited from jogging in public until a reform was introduced in 2017.
6eMY TIL that in 1978, the engineer of Citicorp Center, one of the 10 tallest buildings in NYC, discovered a fatal flaw in the building’s structure. A massive, secretive plan, was set in motion to correct the flaw before the building toppled over and killed thousands.