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TIL it is illegal for anyone, even children, to wear camouflage clothing of any kind in Barbados

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GYPGE TIL that there is a second Bethlehem of Galilee, a small town just a few miles west of Nazareth, where Mary and Joseph lived. An antiquities biblical archeologist proposes that this is the true birthplace of Jesus rather than Bethlehem of Judea, more than 70 miles away, south of Jerusalem.
woEPW TIL Tom Cruise's name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV
xVr1b TIL: A record exists called "Friends from the Beginning - Little Richard and Jimi Hendrix" contrary to the album's title and claims in the liner notes, Hendrix doesn't contribute anything to the recording. Little Richards involvement in some of the songs has also been called into question.
v4ML TIL that ‘meconium’, the first bowel movement of an infant, can be tested to determine if the mother smoke, drank or engaged in drug use during pregnancy. Meconium testings can be used in the US to determine the eligibility of the parents to keep their newborn child.
Q6ee TIL a German unit in civilian clothes invaded Poland on August 26th, 1939 to capture a railway tunnel, unaware that the German invasion of Poland had been postponed.