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grry8 TIL the Adam and Eve also existed within Canaanite mythology. Adam was a god who was sent down by the great gods to save the tree of of life, and the world, from the serpent.
GYrv4 TIL After reviewing 50 years of literature from 1947 to 1997, Salman Rushdie concluded that Indian writers writing in English is proving to be a stronger and more important body of work than most of what has been produced in the 16 'official languages' of India
loK1a TIL serial killer Edmund Kemper was so friendly with his local police that they initially thought his phone call confessing to killing his mother was a weird prank. They also didn't know he'd killed his own grandparents in his teens because that record was expunged.
Xo5R TIL that the farmers of Hanyuan, China, are forced to pollinate pear trees by hand because all the bees died off.