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TIL the author of a best selling evangelical book, "I Kissed Dating Goodbye" which promoted "Purity Culture" and condemned pre-marital touching including kissing, disavowed his book, divorced his wife, and renounced Christianity

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4kvOR TIL Iwo Jima changed its name back to Iōtō in 2007
e0E1L TIL Bird’s nest soup is considered a delicacy in China. It is made from the nests of birds called swiftlets, who make the nests using their own solidified saliva. These nests are sold at prices up to about $6,6000/kg.
aw1xA TIL in Texas' first drive-thru strip club has 2-song limit
oRYmA TIL that, despite it being a common and recurring myth, there is no evidence lobster was ever fed to prisoners
J1gnv TIL that Rutgers University is the only university in the US that was one of the original colonial colleges, a land-grant institution, and a state university.