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TIL the New Testament requires Christian women to wear head coverings, while the Qur'an does not.

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oRMy7 TIL The largest Passover Seder in the world is held annually in Nepal
l7VJr TIL in the town of Espelette, France, people grew Espelette peppers. The town held pepper festivals dedicated to these local peppers every October. The peppers have a fruity flavor and have a heat level of 4,000 Scoville Heat Units. The peppers today have the EU's PDO status and France's AOP.
Ll0m TIL Vladimir Putin is a black belt in Judo and produced an instructional video called “Lets Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin” in 2008.
VMYYG TIL about Argument from poor design, an argument against the existence of a creator God, based on the reasoning that a powerful and benevolent God would not create organisms with suboptimal designs that can be seen in nature.
XEEoX TIL: Around 200,000 people in Hong Kong eat, sleep, and clean themselves in roughly half the size of a parking spot, nicknamed Coffin Cubicles.