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TIL that excommunicated Martin Luther, who had a history of depression, argued that suicide is not sin. Further cementing his differences with the Catholic Church.

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e0Yyn TIL that, aside from some obvious exemptions, like exposure of genitals for a sexual purpose to anyone who's underage, public nudity is not illegal anywhere in Canada. Being topless in public, nude sunbathing, swimming and even streaking have been upheld as legal through multiple court challenges.
DQAwV TIL that in 1941 a group of free-thinkers gathered together in a cabin in the woods to perform a black magic ritual to kill Adolf Hitler - and they brought a photographer from LIFE Magazine with them to document it!
1aNmd TIL Father and son died on the same day, 14 years apart while working on Hoover Dam
L1bQ TIL that St. Augustine of Hippo, a Father of the Church, wrote a prayer as a teenager. It went, “Lord, grant me chastity and continence, but not yet”.
KAKB TIL Google pays Mozilla $300Million/year to be the default search engine in Firefox