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TIL that Pantheism is belief that God did not create the universe, but rather the universe is God

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5jEk TIL in Nov. 1944, Japan launched 9,300 bombs carried by balloons to the USA. These killed six civilians, crashed into a farm and caused a short circuit in power lines supplying electricity for the nuclear reactor cooling pumps in the Manhattan Project’s production facility.
KYO7B TIL that Richard Gere was banned from being an Oscar presenter in 1993 when denouncing the situation in Tibet when he was announcing the nominees. This led to him being banned from visiting China and most of the main Hollywood studios blackballed him, so he mostly acted in independent films
8rN8 TIL the average recorded age at death for the slaves of the ancient Rome was extraordinarily low: seventeen and a half years (17.2 for males, 17.9 for females)
Eo17 TIL Stone Age Europeans are thought to have created brief “gifs”, by drawing two versions of an image, one over the other, on cave walls. The flickering of a torch light would “animate” the image
awNZM TIL that Sea Spiders breathe mostly through their legs. They are exclusively marine, are more diverse and larger in size in Antarctic waters than anywhere else and have survived all mass extinctions since their first appearance in the fossil record 480 Million years ago.