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TIL that the "Filioque controversy" was a major theological dispute between Eastern and Western Christianity over whether the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father alone or from the Father and the Son, contributing to the Great Schism.

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lonAr TIL The film 'The Conqueror', in which John Wayne played Genghis Khan, was filmed near to a nuclear test site. 91 of the film's 220 cast and crew members developed cancer later in life.
4dpN TIL the Baltimore Gas and Electric Company once sent out scratch & sniff stickers to educate the public on the smell of a gas leak, only for it to backfire when the smell of the unopened envelopes were mistaken for gas leaks.
W48A TIL it is possible to extinguish all the mosquitoes. Scientists recently reported a system that allows them to push the “Nix” gene to such a system it would essentially create a chain reaction spreading the male gene, producing males until eventually the population crashes.
78py7 TIL in 1985, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) likely helped to facilitate the prison escape of eventual Liberian leader and convicted war criminal Charles Taylor.
xV0J0 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.