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TIL: After a Monty Python fan found out that a member of the group was a homosexual, she sent them a letter quoting a biblical passage that said homosexual should be stoned to death. To this, Eric Idol replied "We've found out who he was and we've taken him out and had him shot!"

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Wk0QX TIL of the Alexamenos graffito, a piece of Roman graffiti estimated to have been made c. 200 AD. It depicts a man worshiping a crucified, donkey-headed man, along with the phrase "Alexamenos worships [his] god". It is thought to be the oldest surviving depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus.
ne1pd TIL anthropologists have recreated the name of the ancient Indo-European sky god Dyēus or Dyḗus Phtḗr(Sky Father)from which is derived Deus, Dio, Zeus/Zeus Pater, Jove/Jupiter, द्यौष्(Dyáuṣ), Deva, Tyr, Day, Tuesday, and Deity among many others
lkjG TIL dolphin communication follows a linguistic rule that unites human languages, called Zipf’s law. The law states that the frequency of a language’s common words follow a trend — the most common word in a language appears twice as often as the second most common word.
DPLg TIL in 1938 Mexico was the only country to protest against the German annexation of Austria.
xGgB TIL that Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov attempted to create a human-ape hybrid. He wanted to create a solider with strength of an ape and the brains of a human. Working with human sperm and female chimpanzees, he failed to create a pregnancy