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TIL 666 is not the number of the beast, it’s 616 and was changed in later versions of the bible to mirror the number of Jesus, 888

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eRRL TIL illegal downloading of songs, games and software may cost you a job at the Central Intelligence Agency as they do look into your history of it
4XpDb TIL that Arrhichion is the only person to have won an Olympic event while dead. His opponent suffocated him during a game of pankration, essentially a no-holds-barred fight, but didn't realize that he had killed Arrhichion and surrendered due to his injuries.
oB8Mo TIL in 2007 a Chinese company sold a sofa model with an inappropriate label after their translation software translated the Chinese characters for "dark brown" as "n***er brown".
jPGp TIL that Roman Emperor Augustus witnessed a man attempt to feed a slave to lampreys as a punishment for breaking a cup. Augustus freed the slave and had the rest of the man’s cups broken.
YoKG TIL the state of Colorado has fewer cars per person than any other state, with 340 vehicles for every 1,000 people.