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TIL that Greek mythology isn’t a dead religion: People still worship the 12 Greek gods just as the Greeks did.

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LQddm TIL in 2003, art historian Juan Junquera has questioned the authenticity of the 14 Black Paintings by Goya. According to Junquera, Goya's son may have created the paintings, and his grandson later passed them off as Goya's works for financial gain
rRjQw TIL that the Japanese planned an invasion of the Philippines in 1637 to stop Spanish expansionism but they were stopped at the last minute by a Christian rebellion
jNJdj TIL President Herbert Hoover and First Lady Lou Henry Hoover were both fluent in Chinese and would speak it to each other in the White House to prevent eavesdropping.
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