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TIL most historians agree that Jesus (as a person) existed. However, there are only 2 events in his life that they all agree happened; his baptism and his crucifixion. They can't agree why he was crucified, however.

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xNW5 TIL that, despite having sold 40 million records worldwide, Rick Astley abruptly retired from music in 1993, at the age of 27, in order to spend more time with his newborn daughter. He wouldn’t produce any new material for the next 10 years, and it was another 14 before he went back on tour.
78eP7 TIL sucking on your SO's (F) nipples can cause irregularities in periods and is also a method of (extremely unreliable) contraception. Sucking on the nipple releases the hormone prolactin, which causes the brain/body to think there is already an suckling infant and will try to delay the next.
Rpx1 TIL that the Beatles once approached Stanley Kubrick with the idea of shooting Lord of the Rings films… Starring themselves. Tolkein shot them down.
5VrXp TIL that the original version of the novel “The Neverending Story” was printed in two colors: Red ink for events in the real world, green for events in Fantasia. One reviewer called it “a good buy… unless you suffer from red/green colour blindness.”
9YpeD TIL the Indian government commissioned a 2-hour Bollywood feature film called "Toilet", designed to help eradicate the practice of public defecation.