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TIL of Abelard, who rejected the prevailing idea that “Jesus died for sins,” preferring instead to focus on God as loving, instead of harsh and judgmental. He was excommunicated.

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wdM8 TIL that Ozzy Osbourne once tried to set the mood by doing a striptease and kissing a record executive on the lips. In reality he was so intoxicated that he performed a Nazi goose-step up and down the table followed by dipping his testicles in and then urinating in the executive’s wine.
6E4Zm TIL that "threatening the President" even as a joke can send people to jail: Richard Humphreys said "God might speak to the world through a burning Bush," in regards to President Bush, was found guilty and sentenced to 3 years in prison.
eDa6 TIL The Treaty of Tripoli stated that “The Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion” in 1796.
E176x TIL The “New Forest” in the UK dates back to William the Conqueror, making it almost 1000 years old.
v1LDj TIL that the US is in eternal battle with a flesh eating fly called the Screw Worm. Basically a maggot that burrow into live flesh, head first. There's a worm screw border guard at Panama, having mostly irradicating them in North America. Last US case in 2016. Yes, they will lay their eggs in you.