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TIL, the FBI once circulated to police departments, people who make frequent reference to the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights may be terrorists

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OGklL TIL that Christians, Muslims, and Jews have all used roughly the same word for God due to the closeness of their cultures. Jesus of Nazareth would have called God "Elah," in Hebrew "Elohim," and later, Islam would call God "Allah."
YpkLB TIL that one woman pays $164K per year to live on a luxury cruise ship
Br1re TIL humans are the sweatiest primates alive. We have up to five million sweat glands producing a maximum of three gallons of sweat per day. The production of sweat glands is inversely related to the production of hair, and the evolutionary loss of our hair is connected to our success as a species.
awOrZ TIL about the Battle for Castle Itter, where in the closing days of WWII a small group of Americans, French prisoners, a surrendered SS officer, and several Wehrmacht soldiers fortified an Austrian castle and held off a force of marauding SS soldiers.
0XP5 TIL that the auditory and visual hallucinations along with many other symptoms of acute carbon monoxide poisoning are probably the cause of haunted houses and ghost stories.